Opening This Week

Debra Ramsay, Hue, Place, Pace, One Year of Color, 2016, acrylic on polyester film, dimensions variable (installation, detail)

Debra Ramsay: HUE[S]PACE

Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6 - 8 PM

September 9 - October 9, 2016

Artist's Talk: Sunday, October 2, 3PM

Event: Saturday Oct 1, there will be two dance performances w/Norte Maar/Gleich Dances

Odetta

Brooklyn, NY

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Sharon Louden, Windows, 2016, oil on paper, 8.25 x 12 inches

Sharon Louden: Windows

Opening Reception: September 8, 6 - 8 PM

September 8 - October 8, 2016

Morgan Lehman

New York, NY

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Sharon Butler, An early painting based on digital drawings featured on the artist's Instagram feed (@sharon_butler)

Machines of Paint and Other Materials, curated by Jennifer Riley

featuring work by: 

Sharon Butler, Cora Cohen, Elizabeth Hazan, Kathleen Kucka, Doreen McCarthy, Marcie MacGuffie, Laura Newman, Erin O’Brien, Nakima Ollin, Jennifer Riley, Lisa Stefanelli, Patrick Burns, Nathaniel Flagg, Craig Fisher, Michael Geshwer, Julian Hatton, Erick Johnson, Russell Roberts, Steve West and Kelly Wilson.

Opening Reception: September 10, 6 - 9 PM

September 10 - October 2, 2016

Studio 1046

(a temporary space at 72 Front Street)

DUMBO, Brooklyn

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Gary Petersen, Staring at the Sky, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 64 inches

Gary Petersen: Back There Behind the Sun

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 7, 6 - 8 PM

September 7 - October 16, 2016

McKenzie Fine Art
New York, NY

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Jack Davidson, yaddo collage 13, 2016, painted paper on paper, 22 x 15 inches

Deux Côtés / Two Sides Part I in collaboration with Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris

featuring work by:

Dominique De Beir, Eric Brown, Sharon Butler, Jack Davidson, Frederique Lucien, Pierre Mabillie, Christophe Robe and Joyce Robbins

Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6 - 9 PM

September 9 - October 16, 2016

THEODORE:Art

Brooklyn, NY

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Bonny Leibowitz

Bonny Leibowitz: Remnants and Other Elevated Parts

Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6 - 9 PM

September 9 - October 9, 2016

No.4 Studio

Brooklyn, NY

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Jack Davidson @ THEODORE:Art

Installation view.

 you said something i've never forgotten (left) and trying to get over

From the Press Release:

Theodore:Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and wall work by Jack Davidson.

Retinal Noise.

Everything is related. The community and the arena of life are the boundaries of expression of what, in modern times, we knew as privacy. We have now fallen into a social network which surprises both for its flexibility and for its tendency towards an enormous abyss of meaning.

Painting in this time of the present-continuous cruelly confronts the communicative core of reality. It prefers a direct relationship with the world, one without degrees of separation. It is important to see how an ever increasingly anachronistic medium, with regard to the dictatorship of immediacy, renders us disobedient.

The epidermis of the world’s retina, which is how we can refer to Jack Davidson’s work, is conscious of strangeness and belonging at the same time. Jack ironically sympathizes with already existing images – from record covers to vestiges of his biography – metabolizes them, and then restores them to what is a more open reading, always maintaining a faithful, but never dogmatic, allegiance to the discipline of painting.

This procedure of his is a kinetic-cognitive drift similar to that of the flâneur, someone able to do as many different jobs as there are ways of seeing. He propounds a new artificiality that depends on recognition, because images don’t have a mother tongue, but are an adopted language.

To Jack, music is as much nutrient as information. In our life, the important questions appear as news in the guise of documents; living is thus the dictatorship of information. Jack separates the noise of music from the information prior to painting, but always so he can mix them up again, like an interpreter who doesn’t owe his life to a recognizable score.

On his walks he looks for what is hidden between routine meditations and the slowing down of repetition, therefore we sense almost secret geometries among the painting planes, and difficult and improbable color decisions that are virtuosic without being capricious.

For this exhibition Jack has designed a viewing bench in which he has taken the precaution of leaving the least defined, most open, place for a third person; two people make a conversation,but the third decides the subject. The seat of the bench is composed of his sewn together paint rags. We sit on his corrections, as on the strict materiality of painting.

Javier Peñafiel. Barcelona, 2015.

Installation view.

 back down the goldbourne road we go, 2014, oil and enamel on canvas, 18 x 15 in.

Installation view with i want to lead the sporting life, 2014 (on right).

Jack Davidson: love, mistake, promise, auto crackup, color, petal

Through April 12, 2015

THEODORE:Art

56 Bogart

Brooklyn, NY 11206

Jack Davidson @ Theodore:Art

Jack Davidson: love, mistake, promise, auto crack-up, color, petal

Opening: March 7, 6 - 9 PM

March 7 - April 12, 2015

Theodore:Art
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Jack Davidson @ Sometimes (works of art)

 

Jack Davidson: When We Touch

Through January 3, 2014

Sometimes (works of art)

83 Canal Street

New York, NY 10002