SARA TECCHIA ROMA NEW YORK

03-17-2009

Corey Arnold's FISH-WORKS reviewed by Robert Ayers
http://www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/?p=414

03-06-2009

PREVIEW: WEDNESDAY MARCH 4, 2009 | 3 - 9pm

Booth D10

http://www.scope-art.com/

LOCATION: Lincoln Center Damrosch Park
62nd Street and Amsterdam (10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10023

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce our participation in the upcoming edition of SCOPE New York 2009. Please stop by our booth D10 to view works by the following artists:
Robert Brinker: large scale cut-paper graphite drawings layered with reflective mylar.
http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/robert_brinker/

Sebastian Denz: unique life size 3D photographs.
http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/sebastian_denz/

David Fried: sound activated sculptures.
http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/david_fried/videos.php

Paul Jacobsen: oil paintings
http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/paul_jacobsen/

PAUL JACOBSEN AT ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER

February 17 - March 18, 2009
The exhibition "Imaginary Home" features the work of Mala Iqbal, Tom Andersen and Paul Jacobsen, three young painters who create vivid and lush psychic landscapes using imagery from their upbringing.
www.andersonranch.org

Black Horse, Black Crow, Black Flag, 2009
Charcoal on Paper
72 x 120 inches

DUSTON SPEAR AT ARENA I, SANTA MONICA, CL

"Illiterature" is a group show curated by Mark Carter and aims "to present works in various media that utilize text and text-like imagery for visual, graphic, illustrative and contemplative ends rather than a literal dialog". Among the participating artists are Ed Ruscha, Mike Patten, Vuk Cosic, Megan Murphy.

Show dates: February 21 - March 21, 2009

www.santamonicaartstudios.com

Duston Spear
We the People, 2005
Oil paint on Fabriano paper
22 x 30 inches

UPCOMING: DUSTON SPEAR "DISASTERS OF WARPaper"

Pace Professor Duston Spear presents work in mixed media based on Goya's famous series at Choate House Gallery at Pace University, Pleasantville, NY.

Artist's Talk: March 25, 3 pm

Public Reception: March 29, 2 - 4 pm
Exhibition: March 11 - April 8, 2009
www.pace.edu/home_calendar.cfm

FISH-WORK: PHOTOGRAPHS BY COREY ARNOLD AT SARA TECCHIA ROMA NEW YORK THRU APRIL 4th:

Corey Arnold is included in the current issue of PDN as one of the "30 Emerging Photographers to Watch" and is featured in a 17-page photo spread of The Paris Review No. 187. Both available at newsstands.

11-28-2008

http://www.aquaartmiami.com/fairs/Aqua-Wynwood/45/

http://aquaartmiami.com/schedule.html

The 2008 edition of the fair will be an exciting one for the gallery: the 6 man Dutch collective, Antistrot will be painting the massive mural at the entrance of the fair, while Ellis Gallagher will be donning the interior walls with one of his renown shadow chalk drawings. At our booth # 16 new works by:

Antistrot: The 6 members of Antistrot found each other while studying illustration at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Ten years later, with most members in their early thirties, Antistrot still draw and paint as a group. They do so simultaneously around a table "attacking" the canvas from all sides incorporating images from obscure comics, fashion magazines, old photography books, and other sources drawing onto the canvas with each member's distinct and individualized style.

http://www.saratecchia.com/exhibiting/antistrot/

Corey Arnold: Working 3-4 months out of the year as a crab fisherman in Norway and Alaska, Arnold's photographs document his life at sea by providing a stunning contrast between the enormous power of the sea and the tiny humans working on deck.

http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/corey_arnold/

David Fried: Working with a combination of organic materials e.g. marble, granite, cast stone and synthetic polymers, Fried's "Self Organizing Still Life" sculptures consist of unique, sound-activated spheres. Fried is able to give each sphere it's own personality hence they respond and "dance" differently to ambient sounds, much like the way people dance differently to the same tune.

http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/david_fried/videos.php

http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/david_fried/14.php

Paul Jacobsen: Jacobsen's oil paintings depict a post-apocalyptic world in which human beings are naked of modern society's oppression(s). They are placed in a rejuvenated landscape: the new Arcadia, free of the demands elicited by consumer driven society. Building on the traditions and techniques of landscape painting through the influences of Claude, Bierstadt, Bosch, Ingres, Bougerau, and Richter, Jacobsen conceives his works as "recruitment paintings": Rosenquist's billboards with a twist. Jacobsen is currently part of the group show, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, at MASS MoCA, MA on view thru April 9, 2009.

http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/paul_jacobsen/

Karina Wisniewska: Born to Swiss-Polish parents in Venice, Karina Wisniewska began playing the piano at age five, going on to become a professional pianist and recording ten audio CDs. In 1997, she was awarded the title Swiss Musician of the Year and was a celebrity within the classical music circuit until a freak accident interrupted her career as a professional musician. Thus, Wisniewska turned to painting with quartz sand as a means for the visual expression of rhythm and musicality. The artist describes her works as "sound pictures" for which Johann Sebastian Bach and John Cage are the main sources of inspiration

http://www.saratecchia.com/exhibiting/karina_wisniewska/

We look forward to meeting you!

09-09-2008

ELLIS GALLAGHER INSTALLATION AT SARA TECCHIA ROMA NEW YORK

Ellis Gallagher is a native New Yorker. As a former graffiti writer, his work can be found in New York City and beyond, in Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers by Peter Sutherland (Powerhouse Books 2004), as well as in numerous newspapers, magazines, on television and in films.

Currently a Contemporary/Street Artist known as (C)ELLIS G., Gallagher's work has appeared on the cover of Time Out New York, in the New York Daily News, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Paper, Mass Appeal Magazine, Artnet Magazine, Overspray Magazine, Der Spiegel Germany, The Area Revue France, H Magazine Spain, as well as on NY 1, RAI TV Italy, Chinese News Network, NYCTV, The Hallmark Channel, Current T.V., WPIX 11 (NYC), NBC 4 (NYC), WNET 13 PBS(NYC) and the streets of New York City and beyond.

Gallagher will publish his first book "Adhesives," the ultimate compendium of graffiti, graphic design and street art stickers with Miss Rosen Editions for Powerhouse Books.

Come and check out Ellis Gallagher's site-specific installation at the gallery. It involves a hanging bike and shopping cart...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/nyregion/10chalk.html?ex=1291870800&en=14d6fbf4c8ce722b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/graffiti/ellis.php

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0805,tucker,78874,2.html

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis12-21-07.asp

07-10-2008

CHRISTA PARRAVANI AT THE 15th ANNUAL WATERMILL SUMMER BENEFIT AUCTION

We are pleased to announce photographer Christa Parravani's participation in this summer's 15th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit Auction. The Watermill Center was founded in 1992 by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson to provide young and emerging artists with a unique environment for creation and exploration in theater and all its related art forms, and to develop a strong global network transcending age, experience, social, religious and cultural backgrounds.

For ticktets to the 15th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit on July 26th please contact TJ Witham at (212) 253-7484 ext. 10.

For more information on Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, please visit:

www.robertwilson.com
www.watermillcenter.org

Christa Parravani, Nancy Knapp, 2007
C-Print

DAVID FRIED AT THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud and excited to announce the unveiling of a large-scale SOS, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Georgia. This multi-color sound activated sculpture will be on view until October 2008 as part of the exhibition Sculpture in Motion: Art Choreographed by Nature, curated by gallerist and landscape designer Brigitte Micmaker. It's a must-see!

To see a video of the SOS in action click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A56sjJwQZc

Atlanta Botanical Garden 1345 Piedmont Ave. NE Atlanta, Georgia www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org

David Fried, SOS, 2008
Granite and mixed media

05-12-2008

Corey Arnold part of New York Photo Festival '08

We are proud to announce that Corey Arnold's photography is part of the exhibition "Various Photographs" curated by Tim Barber.

Please join us for the opening on May 14, 7-10 pm.
70 Front Street, Dumbo-Brooklyn
The opening is free and open to the public.
If you can't make the opening exhibition hours are 10am -7pm, May 15-18.

For more information travel to:
http://www.nyphotofestival.com/mainexhibitions.html

04-18-2008

COREY ARNOLD ON NPR'S "THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT"

"Corey Arnold's current project, Fish-Work, is part photographic documentary, part conceptual art - capturing what he calls his "love/hate relationship with fishing, manual labor, and the people that inhabit the fish towns of Northern Norway and Alaska."

Listen to his "fish tales" at:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/bpp_slideshows/Corey/publish_to_web/index.html

*Special thanks to the lovely Angela Ellis.

04-08-2008

Meet the Redhead Gallerista:

Sara Tecchia discusses challenges, achievements, and her red hair with Senior Foreign Correspondent Ana Finel Honigman on Saatchi Online.

Check out their second successful collaboration at:
Saatchi Online interview with Ana Finel Honigman

New Contemporaries
April 16-20, 2008
Hall 4.1-B 050
Noon to 8 pm daily

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to be part of the New Contemporaries program in the upcoming edition of Art Cologne.
We will be featuring new works by:

Karina Wisniewska: Once a world famed classical pianist, Wisniewska's subtle, yet labor intensive paintings combine acrylic, lacquer, and quartz sand. The artist's unique process is inspired by sound and music and has provided Wisniewska of a new outlet for the expression of musicality and rhythm.

Steinar Jakobsen: Living and painting in Oslo, Norway, Jakobsen's oil on alucore works are heavy with historical influences yet rich with contemporary imagination. Jakobsen's elaborate and meticulously painted works are contradictory in nature: beautiful and filled with uplifting Northern light yet foreboding and isolating at the same time.

David Fried: Working with a combination of organic materials e.g. marble, granite, cast stone and synthetic polymers, Fried's "Self Organizing Still Life" sculptures consist of unique, sound-activated spheres. Fried is able to give each sphere it's own personality hence they respond and "dance" differently to ambient sounds, much like the way people dance differently to the same tune.

03-20-2008

SCOPE New York March 26-30, 2008 Booth 16:

SCOPE Pavilion at Lincoln Center

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce our participation in the upcoming SCOPE New York 08. We will be featuring work by the following artists:

Antistrot: Reflecting on our ever-changing modern world, this Dutch collective's eclectic, chaotic, and seemingly incoherent paintings provide the viewer with a flood of images, impressions and seductions that we are exposed to in everyday life; the artist's response to the widespread desensitization of our culture.

David Fried: A veteran of the European art circuit, Fried's increasingly scientific and philosophic brand of art provides for a morphing of techniques and processes as seen in his "interactive granite"- a sound stimulated kinetic sculpture.

Corey Arnold: Working 3-4 months out of the year as a crab fisherman, Arnold's photographs document his life at sea by providing a stunning contrast between the enormous power of the sea and the tiny humans working on deck.

Robert Brinker: Consisting of large cut-paper collages layered with reflective Mylar, Brinker's creations toy with space and illusion, often juxtaposed with adult themes. As described by Cydney Payton: "The subconscious exudes in Brinker's paper work through the uncontrolled verbosity and defiance of the line-work in his art making."

For more information please travel to:
http://www.scopenewyork.com/
or just ask us :)

DAVID FRIED AT THE ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE, BERN, SWITZERLAND

Genesis-The Art of Creation
January 26 - April 27, 2008

http://www.paulkleezentrum.ch/ww/en/pub/web_root/pro/wechselausstellungen/genesis_theartofcreation.cfm

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce the participation of David Fried in "Genesis-The Art of Creation" at the Paul Klee Center in Bern.

"Connections with Paul Klee's work are self-evident: the term 'genesis' and the theme of creation are central to Klee's thinking and oeuvre. The artist saw himself as a creator directing the genesis of his works. His method may be compared to that of a scientist: having explored natural or geometric structures in detail, he followed specific rules in the transfer to his medium, i.e. drawing or painting. In his writings Paul Klee also expressed himself on the relationship between science and the fine arts.

Based on the pieces presented at the Centraal Museum, the Berne show will provide a new perspective, focusing on methodological kinships between the avant-gardes in art and in genetic research. Similar evolutionary lines can be traced in both fields: at the beginning stands a break with obsolete orthodoxies; Homo novus studies and analyses the world with new eyes. This research produces new theories, which tend to become dogmas. However, as life is too complex both in terms of scientific codes and the '-isms' of art, these new dogmas are questioned in their turn. Artists and scientists therefore seek ways in which they can relax their systems to confront chaos anew and finding novel approaches to dealing with the complexity of the human condition."

Artists featured in the show are: Jean Arp, Joseph Beuys, Ross Bleckner, Chuck Close, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Sol Lewitt, Piet Mondrian, Bruce Nauman, Marc Quinn, Dieter Roth et alter.

David Fried,
In Bed with Lucy and Dolly No. 33, 2003
Enlarged photogram
Courtesy of Gallery Sara Tecchia Roma New York

LUDOVICA GIOSCIA AT THE AGENCY IN LONDON

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce Ludovica Gioscia's solo show, S.T.O.R.A.G.E., at The Agency gallery in London. The show runs from February 29th until March 29th. Gioscia will be presenting new wallpaper sculptures made largely out of printed paper and perspex. This new series is a turning point for Gioscia whose previous work has been hand screen-printed wallpaper site specific installations. Here, she builds upon her past work by moving into complete 3-dimensionality. Her sculptures function as emblems of popular culture and the post-eighties generation, while "playing with established formalism, taking urban dilapidation as a starting point and re-integrating it into a new sculptural order."

For more information please travel to:
http://www.theagencygallery.co.uk/

11-20-2007

November 9, 2007
Inside Art
By Carol Vogel

FROM ONLINE TO GALLERY
Charles Saatchi, the London advertising magnate and collector whose gallery's Web site introduced Stuart (short for "student art"), where students can post their art and discuss one another's work, is taking art off the computer and putting it on the walls of a Manhattan gallery.

Beginning on Dec. 18 the Sara Tecchia Roma gallery, at 529 West 20th Street in Chelsea, together with Saatchi Online (saatchi-gallery.co.uk) will present "And Who Are You?" The show consists of 12 New York artists whose work was first posted on Stuart, which averages more than 50 million hits a day. The show, organized by the critic Ana Finel Honigman, will run through Jan. 26.

"It's a natural extension of our Web site, a physical embodiment of it," said Annabel Fallon, a spokeswoman for Saatchi Gallery. Saatchi will not take commissions, but the Tecchia gallery will receive 25 percent of sales.

NEW GALLERY ARTIST: STEINAR JAKOBSEN
Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud and excited to welcome Norwegian painter Steinar Jakobsen to our artist roster. Jakobsen's oil on alucore works are heavy with both historical influences and an immediate sense of contemporanaeity. He will not only be one of our featured artists at this year's Aqua Wynwood Miami, but will mount a solo show at the gallery in September 2008.

UPCOMING ART FAIRS: AQUA WYNWOOD MIAMI & SCOPE MIAMI
Sara Tecchia is proud to announce that the gallery has been invited to participate in two major fairs during the upcoming December art fair season: Scope Miami and Aqua Wynwood. Aqua Wynwood is Aqua's new addition; an invitational warehouse fair located a few blocks from the Rubell Collection. Both fairs run from Dec. 4-9. If you should be in the area at this time, please stop by our booths, Aqua Wynwood Miami: booth A9, Scope Miami: booth 28. We will be featuring works by the following artists:

Steinar Jakobsen: Jakobsen's elaborate and meticulously painted works are contradictory in nature, filled with uplifting Northern light yet foreboding and isolating at the same time.
David Fried: Fried's "Self Organizing Still Life" sculptures respond to voice and ambient sounds creating unexpected relationships: the spheres dance in reaction to sound, prompting the viewer's participation.
Christa Parravani: Photographs from Parravani's "Spoon River" series, a photographic interpretation of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology", a collection of 244 poems told by the deceased residents of the fictitious town.
Esma Pacal Turam: Turam's ephemeral silicone laundry lines are an unexpected exploration into the issues of urban identity.

This year at Scope we will be trying something new and completely unexpected. Three of our artists, Antistrot, Ludovica Gioscia and Michael Bilsborough, who are also Scope Miami Featured Artists, will come together during the fair to create an ongoing collaborative mural on the booth walls, building a new exhibition space for their own artwork. Michael Bilsborough was also commissioned to create a mural at the Scope Miami Art Fair entrance.

Antistrot: Virtuoso paintings by the Dutch artist collective whose works bombard the viewer with images from a globalized pop culture.
Ludovica Gioscia: Gioscia's hand crafted silk-screened wallpaper creates new and exciting environments in which the audience is left to question the idea of space itself.
Michael Bilsborough: Ink drawings in which bacchanalian bashes and mysterious rituals become venues for power struggles between genders.

09-26-2007

New Gallery Artists: COREY ARNOLD & CHRISTA PARRAVANI

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce the addition of two artists to our program: Corey Arnold and Christa Parravani. Both are photographers, but their work could not be more divergent.

Corey Arnold (b. 1976), also an Alaskan crab fisherman, draws heavily on his experiences aboard a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea to create sweeping, dramatic panoramas of the grandeur, terror, and surprising humor of the formidable ocean. He was an Aperture award nominee.

Christa Parravani (b. 1977) captures something other than lived reality with her camera lens producing lush prints depicting the construction of intimacy and identity in the contemporary American social landscape. Parravani's Spoon River series is a photographic interpretation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, a collection of 244 poems told by the deceased residents of the fictitious town, Spoon River. She is the recipient of both the 2005 and the 2006 MacDowell Fellowship.

07-26-2007

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce our participation in this year's Watermill auction with an outstanding piece by Michael Bilsborough. It's been almost a year since we first started enjoying clever young Michael's work, and it is our pleasure to help share it with the world, while supporting a wonderful cause.

The benefit takes place on Saturday, July 28 at 6pm at the Watermill Center in Southampton. We hope to see you there.

For more info about the event, see: http://www.watermillcenter.org/events/event_2007_benefit.php

Michael's work may also be seen in the 2007 Watermill Auction catalogue, now available online on our website, at the following address:

http://www.watermillcenter.org/docs/WMC_2007_Benefit_Auction.pdf

Michael Bilsborough
One, Two, Three, 2007
Ink on paper
26 x 38 inches

07-07-2007

EXHIBITIONS IN LONDON: Ludovica Gioscia

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce Ludovica Gioscia's participation in two upcoming group shows in London.

The Weasel at the South London Gallery features works by: Åbäke, Darran Armstrong, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Charles Atlas, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Kulwinder Bajar, My Barbarian, Johanna Billing, Richard Crow, THE ERRORISTS, Maxi Geil! & PlayColt, Ludovica Gioscia & Karen Tang, Judith Hopf, Kitsune, Jason Nelson, Esther Planas, Giles Round, DJ Rubbish, Saltpeter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Slackers, Matt Stokes, Los Super Elegantes.

For two weeks this Summer the South London Gallery will be transformed into 'The Weasel': a music venue showcasing artists working with popular music. Presented on a stage specially designed by Assume Vivid Astro Focus, 'The Weasel' combines artists' film and video with live performances, which reflect upon and investigate the cultures and sub-cultures of popular music. The project will be documented with a unique 'bootleg' of photography and sound.

More Information

Repetion and Sequence at Jerwood Space showcases the new work of 13 international contemporary artists who live and work in the UK. Each is engaged in a wide range of contemporary artistic practices, forms and strategies, through the use of sound, photography, site-specific installation, video, painting and sculpture. Though diverse in background, media and sensibility, the artists share a collective fascination with sequence and repetition - an essential element of daily life. The exhibition, together with its associated publication and artists' talks, seeks to explore the aesthetics of replication & series mirrored in our environment and daily life, and which viewers willingly or unwillingly absorb.

"A sequence is essentially a whole in which nothing is repeated" (Roland Barthes)

Spliced and reassembled sounds, hazard tape formed geometric shapes; layered and ripped wallpaper; a field of miniature diagrammatical flowers; a video loop on sleeping; paintings from the same palette; ever evolving images on canvasÉ these are some of the elements in Repetition & Sequence, an exhibition examining artists' use of recurrence of methodology, form and composition in visual imagery, in daily routine, or in sounds and movements. It focuses on transition and transformation, continuity and change, accident and design.

The exhibition is curated by Silia Ka Tung & Sarah Williams and is accompanied by a publication designed by Daniel Baer, with an essay by Charles Danby.

More Information

Ludovica Gioscia
Detail of Pop-Arzigogolo

06-22-2007

Pipo, Rocky and the Free World

Exhibition: June 30th - July 23rd, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday June 30th, 2007 7–10pm

Rotterdam, the Netherlands based art collective Antistrot, essentially a group of six former art-school classmates, will be hitting up Third Ward late June. The collective will be working on a mural which will be revealed June 30th. Seeing how the group of artists doesn't limit itself to just one artform, the NYC public can look forward to a number of performances, such as Skate Bush, and the infamous Leprechaun Island experience, the latter in collaboration with the famed duo Eru & Emu from Tokyo, Japan.

Founded in 1997,Antistrot has been making a name for itself internationally the last couple of years, with appearances at places such as Dublin, Berlin, Milan, and assorted cities in Portugal and Poland, to name but a few. The group is being represented in the US by Sara Tecchia Roma New York.

The Antistrot experience can't be put into words that easily, but taking a look at their website, www.antistrot.com, might shed some light on what to expect this summer!

Performances (each about 5-10 min):

Death Wish Mode, Ouija Bord, CEO Charlie, Yobkiss, Skate Bush and Leprechaun Island

More info here: http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org/

06-05-2007

CHRISTINA McPHEE: Carrizo Parkfield Diaries at The Katzen Arts Center

Dates: June 5 - July 29, 2007

Artist's talk: Saturday, June 9, 5 pm

Christina McPhee's "Carrizo Parkfield Diaries" meditate and mediate on the indissoluble link between our perceptions of the invisible landscape of data and our own psychic space, particularly as it is transformed during moments of traumatic memory, when the shock of recall is both vivid and fleeting.

The Katzen Arts Center is located at 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW in Washington, DC. Museum hours are:

Tuesday-Thursday 11am to 4pm
Friday-Saturday 11am to 7pm
Sunday-12pm to 4pm.

Installation views

For more information, contact 202-885-1300, or visit www.american.edu/katzen

05-02-07

EVENT IN NEW YORK: Makoto Fujimura performing with Susie Ibarra

Saturday, May 5
9:00 pm
NEUES KABARETT @ THE BRECHT FORUM
Susie Ibarra Drum Sketches
World Premiere, Brecht Forum Commission
Solo Drumset, Kulintang & Percussion with Visual Art by Makoto Fujimura

"Billowy cerulean, incendiary scarlet, and icy silver leapt from the exquisite paintings [of Makoto Fujimura] lining the gallery walls. Perched among them, Susie Ibarra coaxed sound from two small cymbals, rubbing them together before rolling her snares-off drum, eliciting the full range of sound and texture afforded by this austere set. Her elegant, minimalist musical statement harmonized with the visuals that inspired it and exuded the focused artistry and controlled technique that have made her one of the most highly regarded and sought-after drummer-percussionists in creative music.

Since asserting herself as a leader and composer in the late '90s, Ibarra has fostered an interest in cross-media artistic collaboration, such as the 2005 Sara Tecchia Gallery exhibit of painter Makoto Fujimura described above.

Inspired by visuals and drawing from a broad range of musical influences--from classical and opera to punk, free jazz, and Asian gong music--she has forged a sound as both a percussionist and composer that is unique." - Sean Fitzell

Admission $10
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org

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PRESS: Duston Spear in NYArts Magazine
FULL ARTICLE

Picks for May/June, 2007 - Christopher Hart Chambers

There is a cultural shift happening right now. I can sense it. Just listen to the radio. There's more R + B, Hip Hop is mixing with other forms and Indie Rock is pop. There is a general mining of post war 20th century culture going on. But, this is not your standard retro thing, which was generational: in the 90s, we saw a retro 70s thing; in the 80s it was the 60s and in the 70s it was the 50s. That's standard commercial practice. Seven years into the millennium, it's a little different. In terms of the visual arts, here's a little history: The 80s maximallist painters answered 70s' Minimalism, which, itself, was a reaction to 60s pop art, which was an answer to abstract expressionism. Okay, I'll stop there.

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Toward the beginning of this article, I mentioned blood and guts, and the dawn of a resurgence of interest in what I will now label "painterly painting." Alejandra Seeber certainly qualifies, and another example of this was Duston Spear's exhibition at Sara Tecchia Roma, New York, with her subject matter taken from photographs published in The New York Times on the war in Iraq. But, what truly makes the work interesting in terms of painting is her approach to the canvas. She goes about her business with the confidence of not having to prove herself, sticking to her business. She already knows what good painting is.

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EXHIBITION IN BUDAPEST: Ludovica Gioscia in Are You Experienced?

FUORI USO 2006 -
ALTERED STATES
Are you experienced?
curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Paolo Falcone
FULL LISTING

WAX (ex MEO), Budapest, Hungary
Opening 4 May 2007
Director of ACAX: Barnabas Bencsik

Galeria Noua and MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania
Opening 25 June 2007
Director of Galeria Noua: Aurora Kiraly

Are you experienced? This is the question asked by Nicolas Bourriaud and Paolo Falcone to present the 17th "Fuori Uso" exhibition in Pescara, Budapest and Bucharest.

ARTISTS ON SHOW
Emese Benczúr, Anca Benera, Madeleine Berkhemer, Liz Cohen, Attila Csörgö, Daniela d'Arielli, Christelle Familiari. Matteo Fato, Vidya Gastaldon & Nathalie Rebholz, Ludovica Gioscia, Piero Golia, Barthi Kher, Gunilla Klingberg, Gelitin, Michael Lin, Justin Lowe, Saverio Lucariello, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Kendell Geers, Sergio Sarra, subREAL, Janaina Tschäpe, Luca Vitone, Kelley Walker.

04-28-07

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce Robert Brinker's participation in two shows in Beijing, China, opening in June 2007. The first exhibit is in honor of the 10th anniversary of The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. The show, Insatiable Streams, will be at the BS 1 Contemporary Art Center and the Li Xinagqun Art Center, both in Beijing, China. There will be a catalogue produced of the show. Insatiable Dreams opens on June 16, 2007.

The second exhibition, Dialectic Places, will be at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The show will be a joint exchange of Chinese and American artists, curated by James Surls and Liu Xiaochun. The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University and MA Nose Studios, Aspen, Colorado, have jointly published a hand-made, limited edition artist book by Robert Brinker, titled, The Recount of the Recount. The book will be in the exhibit at the National Art Museum of China along with recent large cut drawings. Specially designed cases will be made to display the book and a catalogue will accompany the exhibit. Dialect Places opens on June 29, 2007.

04-07-07

LISTE Köln
Hello Everybody,

I am proud to announce that Sara Tecchia Roma New York will be part of the upcoming LISTE-KÖLN art fair that runs parallel to ART COLOGNE (April 17 – 22). If you should be in Cologne at that time please stop by our booth G9 where we will be featuring works by:

Dietmar Busse, romantic photographs of his small German village.
David Fried, sound activated sculptures that explore the notion of dynamic and complex relationships.
Ludovica Gioscia, a glow in the dark site specific installation, which focuses on transient moments of intense feeling.
Christina McPhee, large format photographs, which involve time and memory within technological landscapes.
Duston Spear, graffiti-inspired text paintings.
Karina Wisniewska, sand paintings inspired by the subtleties of music.

For more information please visit: http://www.liste-koeln.org

A presto!

Sara

12-5-06

David Fried
2006
Volksbank HQ, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Sara Tecchia is proud to announce that the Volksbank HQ, Germany has added one large SOS sculpture and 5 Rainscapes photographic works to their collection.

2006
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany.
Sara Tecchia is proud to announce that Marli Hope-Ritter personally commissioned one SOS sculpture for the museum's permanent collection. It is currently on display in the extensive exhibition "Bewegung im Quadrat" (Moving in Squares) through May 2007.
http://www.museum-ritter.de
http://saratecchia.com/artists/david_fried/videos.php

10-11-06

Pamela Z in WUNDERKABINET
an opera inspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology
"The most gifted and enterprising vocalist/composer/audio artist in the United States since the heyday of Joan La Barbara and Meredith Monk." The Wire

Inspired by the delightfully unconventional Museum of Jurassic Technology, this alluring multimedia opera is the latest opus from Pamela Z—the Alpert Award-winning electronic composer, singer and performance artist who has opened new horizons for vocal music. Blurring the lines between secret reality and evocative flights of fancy, Wunderkabinet charts the magical journey of one Alice May Williams from New Zealand to the Mount Wilson Observatory outside of Los Angeles—where she finds herself in an enchanted museum of esoteric curios and unheard-of marvels. Scored by Pamela Z and Matthew Brubeck, and performed by Pamela Z (voice and live electronic processing) and Alex Kelly (cello and electronics), with video by Christina McPhee.

9-3-06

EXTENDED REMIX / FINDING BALANCE
Sara Tecchia is proud to announce Robert Brinker's participation in two upcoming exhibitions. The first, Extended Remix, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado is MCA's Director/Curator Cydney Payton's riff on the ambitious 2006 summer exhibition "Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 -Present. Extended Remix interweaves 30 established, mid-career and emerging artists living and working in Colorado today."

The show will run from September 15, 2006 through January 7, 2007 and there will be a full color catalog produced.

For further information: http://www.mcartdenver.org.

The second group exhibition Finding Balance at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas, is curated by James Surls and features works by Robert Brinker, James Surls, Pamela Joseph, Brad Miller and others. To describe the exhibition, the curator is quoted as saying: "There exists in any time period what is referred to as the 'spirit of the age.' Our age has witnessed a dramatic change in patriarchal dominance as it relates to the matriarchal." Internationally known artist James Surls examines this shift - and its implications for contemporary art and culture - in the exhibition Finding Balance. Surls has chosen 26 works by eleven artists that represent a wide range of media and perspectives, all contributing to the creative quest for balance.

There will be a catalog for the exhibition with essays by James Surls, Charmaine Locke, and Leonard Shlain, author of two in-depth studies on this subject, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess and Sex, Time and Power.

The exhibition will run from October 13, 2006 through January 14, 2007.

For further information: www.findingbalanceshow.com

6-23-06

SCOPE HAMPTONS
Hello Everybody,

I am very happy to announce the participation of Sara Tecchia Roma New York in the upcoming edition of

We will be exhibiting works by

Clement Price-Thomas, our featured artist who "grows" stunning abstract works from salt and ink.

Also in our booth:

Michael Bilsborough's formalist neo-pornographic drawings
Robert Brinker's sullied Disney graphite and Mylar assemblages
Dietmar Busse's romantic photographs of his small German village
David Fried's interactive sculptural explorations of dynamic relationships
Makoto Fujimura's small works using the Medieval Nihonga technique
Roger Ricco's "Night Set" photographs
Duston Spear's graffiti-inspired text works
Karina Wisniewska's subtle sand paintings inspired by sound

Also, see G.H. Hovagimyan, Gregory King and Christina McPhee in the special cinema program.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Arrivederci,

Sara

For more information: www.scope-art.com

5-26-06

ROGER RICCO
Sara Tecchia is proud to announce Roger Ricco's participation in the group exhibition Tracing Shadows at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The exhibition, which features works by Ricco, Kara Walker, Shirin Neshat, Regina Silviera and others, focuses on " (..) the place of shadow and silhouette in contemporary art. The visitors can experience them in various environments – creating with their bodies different shadow shapes, which are recorded and continue to flicker on a screen; taking a walk in a "Magic Forest," where their presence activates sensors that produce animal sounds and images; exploring a desert environment, in which the position of the sun can be adjusted to make shadows longer or shorter according to the time of day. All these and more offer visitors of all ages a chance to experience, activate, and marvel at shadow's many faces".

The exhibition will run from 5/23/2006-2/28/2007. For more information: http://www.imj.org.il

MAKOTO FUJIMURA at All Hallows on the Wall
June 26 to July 13

In residence at All Hallows on the Wall as part of Ceremonies of Peace, New York based artist Makoto Fujimura will show several paintings and two video pieces. They are based on his recent exhibitions Water Flames and Splendor and include some elements of his Two-T installation for the TriBeCa Temporary, a small conceptual space at "Ground Zero" developed by Fujimura and fellow artist Hiroshi Senju soon after September 11 2001. Fujimura's work combines abstract expressionism explored in the US with the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga.

All Hallows on the Wall
London Wall
London
EC2M 5ND

See: www.colf.org

5-15-06

MAKOTO FUJIMURA: Water Flames and Zero Summer at the Katzen Arts Center

Dates: May 16 - August 20, 2006

Artists' Reception: Saturday, May 20, 6 - 9pm

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce the MAKOTO FUJIMURA exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center-American University Museum, Washington DC.

Makoto Fujimura was born in 1960 in Boston, MA. Educated in both the US and Japan, he graduated from Bucknell University in 1983, and received an M.F.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with a Japanese Governmental Scholarship in 1989. Known for marrying abstract expressionism with the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga, Fujimura has had numerous solo shows both in the US and abroad.

The Katzen Arts Center is located at 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW in Washington, DC. Museum hours are:

Tuesday-Thursday 11am to 4pm
Friday-Saturday 11am to 7pm
Sunday-12pm to 4pm.

For more information, contact 202-885-1300, or visit www.american.edu/katzen

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CHRISTINA MCPHEE at WeeGee, House for Culture and the Arts in Tapiola, Finland

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to announce the first exhibition of new media art at the newly refurbished WeeGee, House for Culture and the Arts in Tapiola, Finland on 9th May headlining Christina McPhee.

From 9th May to 5th September 2006, CARTES Centre for Art and Technology presents a video retrospective installation at WeeGee, together with the debut of three new films, by multimedia artist Christina McPhee (US). The exhibition is sponsored in part by the American Scandinavian Foundation N.Y.

Christina's videos are presented courtesy the artist and Sara Tecchia Roma New York

The artist's websites:
strikeslip.tv
christinamcphee.net
naxsmash.net

The exhibition is curated by Maria Tjader-Knight, Director, Cartes.

WeeGee Entrance Hall, Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola, Finland 9th May - 5th September 2006.

Exhibition is open from 11 to 16 every day apart from Monday. Open late Wednesdays until 20. Free entrance.

Christina McPhee Artist talk 9th May at 17.

Opening of the exhibition on 9th May 18-20 with the Artist present.

The exhibition is opened by Director of City Culture Espoo, Georg Dolivo.

Opening speech by Councillor for Press and Cultural Affairs, William Davnie, U.S. Embassy, Finland.

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