ALL | TOGETHER | DIFFERENT A Survey of Working Artists on the Lower East Side Curator Linda Griggs | Curatorial Advisor Yona Verwer February 12, 2015 - April 1, 2015 MANNY CANTOR CENTER 197 East Broadway, NY, NY 10002 212.780.2300
Gallery Hours | Mon - Sat |10 - 6 PM Opening Reception | Feb 12 | 7 - 9 PM Address from Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl Ignite Photo Booth Portraits by Steve Ellis Music provided by artists, Scott Williams of Audio Artists on bass and electronic instruments & Tine Kindermann of Villa Delirium on musical saw
Celebrate Poetry Month with a reading from Clayton Patterson Captured hosted by cultural partner The Clemente | Feb 16 | |
We are excited to bring together the artists and organizations of the Lower East Side with work that ranges from minimalism to radical archiving, from artists who range in age from 29 to 92, by those who set the tone for expressive freedom and the subsequent arrivals who inherited a culture that was unique to the area.
The Lower East Side extended north to 14th St until realtors coined the term East Village in the 1960s. The neighborhood's housing stock was primarily limited to small tenement apartments and large housing developments which meant limited work space for creative output. This environment lent itself to conceptual, graffiti, and performance arts, and -- in much the same way that nomadic tribes have limited engagement in non-material culture -- body art. The trend arguably continues with computer generated arts.
Although we lost many of these neighborhood artists to the AIDS epidemic, to drugs, and to rising rents, many stayed, fought for tenant rights for themselves and their neighbors, created communities, kept the spirit and attracted the next wave of artists who inherited the disjointed, yet allied individuality and the freedom to live as you choose.
Many people come to New York for a career in the arts, but you come to the Lower East Side because you want a life in the arts.
FROM THE MANNY CANTOR CENTER Throughout the decades, millions of people who have arrived and made a home on the messy, tumultuous and heaving Lower East Side, also found a safe place; an odd and wonderful place where they could be individuals -- but they weren’t alone. For artists, the Lower East Side was a neighborhood where you could do as you pleased - with your art, with your life.
Lore would have it that the storied pasts of the Lower East Side and emergent East Village art scene ended with gentrification in the 90s. But some artists stayed and continued making art.
This exhibition is not about a history of the Lower East Side’s artists. It is a survey of Today’s Lower East Side artists -- those still engaged with this forever changing and forever the same neighborhood. It is a survey of those still making art, all together, different. All | Together | Different is a project of the Educational Alliance Art School @ Manny Cantor Center
Thanks to Fred Gutzeit for taking professional installation shots, Paul Bridgewater for his work on the In Memorium, Jacob Daniels - Assistant/Intern, and Eliza Jarvinen, Cynthia Maj and Melanie Vote who volunteered on install day.
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PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
ARTISTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
REGINA BARTKOFF
Untitled
2014
Pastel chalk on paper
10 1/2 by 13"
KATHLEEN CASEY
Untitled 11
2014
Acrylic on birch panel
11 x 8"
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CHICO
Chico-Boom
Mixed media karaoke-plinko game-boom box and paint
Box 30 5/8" wide by 40" tall by 6"
ELIZABETH DWORKIN
Road 1987 oil on canvas 14 x 11" |
SUSANNA COFFEY
Transport
2007
oil on panel
12 x 15"
JOHN COPELAND
A Jailer's Keys
2015
oil on canvas
20 x 24" |
JAMIE DALGLISH
Road 1987 oil on canvas 14 x 11" |
ANTON VAN DALEN
Laika the Astronaut Title unknown (chicken car) 1984 colored pencil (?) on paper 5 x 7 framed 9 x 11 courtesy of Allen Hansen |
JACOB DANIELS |
DARIA DESHUK c. 1980s St Mark's Place
oil on canvas 32 x 54"
ERIK FOSS 2014 mixed media on vintage paper 15 x 22" |
ULA EINSTEIN Ask/ask not 2014 photography, limited edition of 10
DAVID FRIEDMAN 2013 acrylic on drilled panel 13 1/2 x 12 1/2" |
STEVE ELLIS 
The Ignited New York photo booth built by Steve Ellis in collaboration with Michael Formika Jones, Misa Martin, Doerte Fitschen-Rath and Michelle Kaminer to document some of New York’s inspiring artistic community. Photo booth and portraits 8' x 4 | |
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DAY GLEESON
The end of the New Year - Giuliani Quality of Life Measures 2011 mixed media with fire cracker residue | LINDA GRIGGS
"When John's friend, Mark was dying Bill promised to scatter his ashes in London, Mark's favorite city.
Years later John asked Bill how the scattering had gone. Bill said he hadn't done it yet. Why not?", John asked. "You go to London several times a year." "I know", John said. "I just keep forgetting to pack him." 2012 oil on canvas over panel 5, 9 x 12" |
FRED GUTZEIT Mylar Glove #24 1982 spectral mylar on foamcore | RICHARD HAMBLETON Shadow Head ca. 1988- 1992 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 18 inches; 61 x 45.7 cm Signed and dated lower right on verso Courtesy of Woodward Gallery, NYC | ALLEN HANSEN One for Mel ( 4 x 5 ) Roofing tar on metal panel |
DANIEL G. HILL
Blue Plate 4816 2010 archival inkject print 16 x 24, framed 23 x 31" |
BRUNO JAKOB
Untitled: Life ,2006 (Gowanus Canal* Brooklyn NY, Canoe 8.October 2006 )
Invisible Painting / Water*, Energy,Brain,Light and Air
On Paper 6"x7 1/2"
Framed: 9 1/4* x 10 3/4 |
TOM JARMUSCH
documents, memory, for my friend bill rice 2006 11 1/4 minute video |
ILSE KAHANE 2009 Pink alabaster
14 x 3 x 3 1/4" |
MARC KEHOE The Painter Kehoe Modestly Envisions himself as Courbet’s The Wounded Man' with Vista Across Tompkins Square Park 2008 Oil on linen 30" x 40" |
KIM KEEVEREroded Man 049d 2010 C-print, 1/6 27 x 16" framed |
TINE KINDERMAN
Brother Sister
detail of peep hole
2013
mixed media
8 1/2 x 20 x 16" | OTIS KRIEGEL
WE MUST 2009 Wooden “Carpenter’s Pencil, white paint, black engraving 7 x 3/8 x 1/4" |
SUSAN LEOPOLD Platform
2009
mixed media
12 x 8 x 9 in |
WAYNE LIU Untitled (Fountain) 2015 site specific installation of various gelatin silver prints dimensions variable |
BONNIE LUCAS Girl with High Heels
11" x 13"
oil on wood panel
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YURI MASNEJ on paper 7 3/4" x 12" framed 15 x 20" | EVERETT MCCOURT William Rand, East Village 1997 gelatin silver print11 x 14 + frame
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JOE HEAPS NELSON 2014 acrylic on canvas 14 x 11" |
ANGEL ORTIZ Title not known date unknown media unknown 11 1/2 x 9 1/2" |
ANDREI PETROVA new day yesterday 2014 Oil on canvas 11 x 16 |
CLAYTON PATTERSON
Screening & Talk - Feb 19, Thrs, 6-9:30
Hosted by LES cultural partner
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KEMBRA PFAHLER Sit-Ins 2008 body paint on paper29 x 29" |
PHILLY aka KONDOR 8 Death at Cherry Blossom Time aka Flying Lesson aka I have Touched the Sky but Once2009 mixed media two layer collage |
JIM POWER |
RICK PROL S. O. S. c. 2006 Goauche on paper 33 1/2 x 47" framed |
JIM RADAKOVICH I Want to Fit in 2014 Acrylic on canvas |
LOUIS RENZONI 24 x 18 |
SAMOA MORIKI 2014 oil on canvas 30 x 24" |
DAVID SANDLIN 2005 oil on wood 24"x32" |
PHYLLIS SANFIORENZIO oil on canvas 16 x 14" | LARRY SILVER oil on clay panel 10 x 8" |
MARY SCHILIRO Zip Dip 2 2012 acrylic paint on Mylar 18 x 10" |
KAREN SCHIFANO
 2012 flashe on panel 9 x 11 3/4" |
JUDITH SIMONIANDeep Water Fish 2012 acrylic 13 x 19 | date unknown oil on canvas 8 x 10 Courtesy of Jeffrey Cyphers Wright | KIKI SMITH Falcon, 2001
aquatint and etching
Hahnemühle bright white paper
paper size: 34 3/4 x 28 inches
image size: 25 x 20 inches
edition of 30 |
MIGUEL TRELLES silkscreen 18 X 14" | |
MARY JO VATH 2014 oil on canvas 15 3/4" x 15 3/4" |
YONA VERWER AND
CYNTHIA BETH RUBIN
LES
2014
Digital photography, acrylic paint,
and augmented reality on canvas
72 x 18" |
APRIL VOLMER Vertical Flyway 2011 Mokuhanga woodblock combined with digital on washi paper 18 x 24" |
PAULINE WALSH
Untitled
2014
acrylic on canvas
12 x 10 |
DAVID WANDER
2012
Rice paper and acrylic on wood
24 x 36" | ROGER WELCH
Laguna Sagaponack Mosel AlleghenyArizona Austria (The Viewing Platforms)
2008 Study for Video 15” x 20” Watercolor and Pencil on Paper |
SCOTT WILLIAMSCity of Rocks
2005
oil on panel
14 x 16 | HANS WITSCHIUntitled
2014
oil on canvas
16 x 12" | JIMMY WRIGHT
Tender Night
c. 1979
watercolor
5 3/4 x 4 1/2" | JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT
Handstand
2014
watercolor
23 x 19" | GUANG ZHU Kenny Doren 2012 Digital 12 x 12 x 12" |
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ORGANIZATIONS THESE ORGANIZATIONS WILL REPRESENT THEIR MISSION IN A 3' WIDE SPACE
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ABC No Rio is a collectively-run arts center on Rivington Street, known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to an actively engaged culture that promotes critical analysis and an expanded vision of possibility for our lives and the lives of our neighborhoods, cities, and societies. It is a place where people share resources and ideas in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support. We’ve retained these values to the present.
Zine Library Wallpaper 77 x 42" |
cadavre exquis with each artist contributing a body part The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center was named in honor of poet, journalist and activist Clemente Soto Vélez, who mentored generations of Latino artists in Puerto Rico and in New York City and left a rich legacy that contributed to the cultural, social and economic life of Puerto Ricans in New York City and Latinos everywhere. Founded in 1993 by three Puerto Rican, Uruguayan, and Dominican literary and performing artists to sponsor art exhibits and performances within the facility and in the greater community, The Clemente is focused on fostering, promoting, and supporting Puerto Rican/Latino arts, while establishing relations with like-minded people and organizations regardless of ethnicity. We dedicate our resources to maintaining affordable spaces for these artists to create, develop, promote, and present their work, and on the development of diverse audiences to whom to present them. Housed in a city-owned architectural landmark-quality building, The Clemente has two art galleries that also serve as multi-use spaces, four theaters, three rehearsal/multi-use rooms, and 43 visual arts studios. The Clemente is home to 13 performing arts, educational, and arts organizations that use the facility for rehearsals, creative development, and public performances, many of them free.
Sara Beatty
Foot Thing
Winter 2014
Acrylic and charcoal
on canvas
16x12 | Linda Byrne
Left Leg 2015 Gouache and cut paper on paper 32 x 9" | Two wrench arm
2015
Two 7/8 wrench keys, nut, bolt and washers. 22"X2" |
Robert Grant
Ghost danse 2014 Acrylic and powdered glitter on canvas 12 x 12" |
Lisa Lebofsky
 Fileseffer
2012
Media, scraped oil paint
on aluminum
10" x 16" | Kylie Heidenheimer Cosmological Hexagonal Pad for (Pop)Corn Knee 2015 Interference acrylic on knee pad 9 x 5 1/2 | Bill Massey
“Open Kimono Upper Torso”
2014
oil on linen
18 x 14 in. | Mark Power
Plastic Copy of Hard Hat 2015 plastic 11 x 5 x 8" | | digital fine art pigment on paper print |
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| Rafael Velez
Righteous Hand 2015 Mixed media: paper, ink, tempera, charcoal on wood 10 x 7 x 1 1/4" |
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| Melanie Vote
Popcorn
2015
mixed media
32 x 10 x 8" |
| Amy Westphal
Untitled
2015
digital print
11 x 8 1/2" |
| Zito 2013 Acrylic and collage on wood 18" diam | |
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| | Past Culture Push Fellows share images and artifacts from their year in the Fellowship for Utopian Practice, a testing ground for new ideas that aim to create positive social change through combining artistic practice with civic engagement. |
| 20 photos detailing changes in elaborate wrought iron facade | Fusion Arts is committed to art that combines all the genres into multi-sensory/multi-disciplinary art. Founded by Shalom Neuman in the 1980s. It has been an arts venue for multi disciplinary artists for over 30 years. It is operated under the auspices of Fusion Arts (Converging Arts Media Organization), a 501(c)3 visual arts organization and registered New York public charity whose mission is to promote fusion art and the artists who choose to create work in this genre. The building has been a fixture on the Lower East Side art scene since the 1980s. The gallery has been in existence since June of 2000. | |
LE PETIT VERSAILLES/ALLIED PRODUCTIONS
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jpg pending | Le Petit Versailles, a New York City LGBTQ community garden established in 1996 by artivists Jack Waters and Peter Cramer, is internationally known as an art space of cultural significance that presents year round public events including exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects. Le Petit Versailles is located at 346 East Houston St. and features an arbor, performance platform, site specific art installations and passageway to 2nd St. Visiting hours are Wednesday - Sunday 2-7pm. & whenever weather is favorable. LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Robert Dell Vuyosevich, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education. |
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cadavre exquis with each artist contributing a body part
DOMINICK GUIDA
Untitled 2015 Watercolor on Arches paper 30 x 22" | MARY JANE MONTALTO
No Title
2007-2014
Ink and acrylic
on two mounted panels
10 x 12 | LARRY SILVER
Summer of Love
2014
Oil on clay panel
10 x 8 | ROBIN TEWES
I'm right, you left. You're right, I'm left
2014
Ink, watercolor, glitter o paper
12 x 16 |
GATHERING OF THE TRIBES | |
Tribes #14 Magazine, poetry books publishes by Tribes, fliers from art shows, and work donated by David Hammons. Tribes will also present a poetry reading for the closing of the exhibition |
Small works and portraits from much loved artists not widely known outside of the neighborhood with white bodega candles
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CARLUCCI BENCIVENGA Photo: Steve Ellis Portrait of Carlucci with one of his masks date unknown enlarged Poloroid 9 x 9" Courtesy of Steve Ellis
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EDWARD BREZINSKINancy Reagan 1984 woodcut 23 x 14 1/4 29 x 20 framed Courtesy of Lenny Kisko |
CRAIG COLEMAN Photo: Phyllis Galembo 1983 photo 8 3/4 x 8 3/4" Courtesy of Paul Bridgewater
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SEAN EARLEY self portrait done after learning of HIV status Blackbird 1991 media unknown 22 1/4 x 17 1/4" Courtesy of Paul Bridgewater | c. 2009 uranium print of Hiroshima victim from photo in the public domain 13 x 10, framed courtesy of Allen Hansen | LUIS FRANGELLA Untitled (Hat) 1988 acrylic on canvas 12 x 15 3/4 courtesy of Hal Bromm | GREER LANKTON
Photo: Geoff Spear
(Greer_Pratt_1981) / Greer, Pratt theater, Brooklyn NY, 1981
Black and white archival print
12 x 18"Courtesy of Geoff Spear
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TOM MURRIN Photo: Patricia Sullivan Tom Murrin with Lady in RedDigital Media 8 1/2 x 11" Courtesy of Patricia Sullivan
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CHRIS TWOMEYStudy from "Stolen Goods" series c. 2012 ink on paper 13 x 16, framed courtesy of Linda Griggs |
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INSTALLATION SHOTS
Courtesy of Fred Gutzeit Photo credit: Fred Gutzeit
SLIDESHOW OF OPENING Courtesy of Manny Cantor Center
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
LINDA GRIGGS at 917 496-7058 or Linda@lindaGriggs.com
YONA VERWER at YVERWER@GMAIL.COM
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