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Childhood Dreams & Memories
JUNE 7, 2013 - JULY 13, 2013

Exhibition opening and booksigning, 6-8 pm June 7 
Carolyn Hampton's first solo exhibition contains a body of work seeking to recreate her childhood dreams. Hampton's childhood memories are recalled with her young daughter as subject of these dreamscape photographs. 


Also see Made in France 
Works from: Edouard Boubat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, Robert Doisneau, Robert Capa, Martine Franck, Frank Paulin, Elliott Erwitt and others.


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NEW YORK PICK OF THE WEEK : DARIO ESCOBAR at josee bienvenu gallery






Dario Escobar

The Blacksmith Project

May 30 – July 18, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday, May 30, from 6-8pm

Renowned for his sculptural re-contextualization of everyday objects, 
Dario Escobar's work explores concepts of cultural and historical hybridity 
ultimately attempting to reexamine Western art history from a Guatemalan 
perspective. 

The Blacksmith Project is an exhibition based on two absences: the absence 
of the painted object and the absence of the subject who painted it. The show 
consists of 11 anonymous paintings by Dario Escobar. It is a new body of 
'self-generated' or 'performative' paintings. The artist has explored similar 
removal processes in other work, such as his Acccidentes  - sculptures created 
by extracting bumpers from crashed trucks and re-chroming them as new.   




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MICHAEL BEVILACQUA, Fantomas in the House, 2007, Acrylic and ink on paper, 42 x 54 inches.		Memorial Day Weekend

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Have a wonderful weekend!

Current Exhibition:
MICHAEL BEVILACQUA
radio amnesia
a survey of works on paper 1997-2013
May 4th - June 15th, 2013

Coming up:
ELENA DEL RIVERO and LINN MEYERS
Rhapsody
June 25th - September 7th, 2013
Opening reception: June 25th, 6-8pm

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BOOK LAUNCH : Geof Oppenheimer at INVISIBLE EXPORTS




BOOK LAUNCH
Geof Oppenheimer
Published by White Walls
 
June 1, 2013 
3-5pm
 
14a Orchard Street 
New York
 
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The book Modular Objects Civil Society reimagines the ways which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they habituate. It is a reflection on the performance of living. It asks questions of how objects accrue value in relationship to one another and how ideas concerning a shared cultural patrimony are projected onto both objects and the objectified in culture.

Social meaning is not formed by a singular, concise gesture but is made in waves and in relation to other people, things or images. Modular Objects Civil Society is invested in this irrational linguistics that culture imprints upon the things that make up our world.

Today, we are in an epoch without an ideal citizen; we are without a shared, underlying set of positions. In this sense there has been a massive breakdown of social meaning and stable power relations. Rather than find this a cynical position we find ourselves in, it is a place of enormous creative impulses. Modular Objects Civil Society is an attempt to reorganize value not along the lines of the supposedly rational and  the quantifiable but along the axis of social energies, the remainders after logic. In this sense it is a redemptive project.

You can pre-order your copy here.


GEOF OPPENHEIMER has exhibited at the The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; PS1/MOMA, Long Island City NY; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; SITE Santa Fe; The Aspen Art Museum; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Project, New York; MC, Los Angeles and at SF Camerawork, San Francisco. Oppenheimer studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art where he received his BFA and received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied at the Academia voor Beeldende Vorming in the Netherlands. Oppenheimer's work takes up questions of civic value, the ways in which political and social structures are encoded in images and objects and how meaning is formed in the modern world. Represented by Ratio3, San Francisco, he is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. 

Begun as an artist-run journal in 1977 by Buzz Spector with Regan and Roberta Upshaw, WhiteWalls Inc. is currently a publisher of artists projects, usually in book form, edited by Anthony Elms. WhiteWalls Inc. books are distributed through the University of Chicago Press.
 
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Please note that the gallery will be closed Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume regular gallery hours on Wednesday, May 29, for the final week of Scott Treleaven's All-Nite Cinema, which closes on Sunday, June 2.  
 
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SURFERS AND LOW RIDERS: " GO GO's DROPPING IN …"





SURFERS 
AND 
LOW RIDERS: 

" GO GO's DROPPING IN …" 





FICTION: Excerpt from The Story Series 

by Joshua Aaron TRILIEGI



 My older brother Chaz is talking Mom into letting me take a day away from school 
to watch the surf contest at Hermosa Beach Break Wall. I wonder what that means, 
were going to break a wall ? We do break it when Mom reluctantly agrees, due to 
my old man seconding the motion. ' The kid needs to learn how to surf, we don't 
want him hanging around these streets & fields for ever.' Somehow,  they agree.
I'm told we will be getting up at five AM. The surf journey starts early when you 
live inland. We pile into someones van & are on the sand lot walking to the reef & 
break by sunrise. If I don't look up, its legs and feet and crotches : I'm nine, ten 
or eleven, the only kid in attendance. Were about to to see one of our neighbor-
hood jesters steal an entire season from a bunch of internationally known pros.  

 People are gathered in groups & huddles. A calm intelligence, mixed with a wild 
sense of un expectancy from the surf, which is cold and grey, is in the air. Big 
sets flow in, getting larger & slanting into even more powerful faces that broaden 
slowly, without notice, becoming the big waves that cats from all over came here 
to be a part of. These are Winter swells. Different than the smooth, silver, glassy, 
summer afternoons we knew so well. This is the mean, cold, sharp, kind of grey,  
jagged, hurtful side of mother nature. An old woman of an ocean ready to take 
the boys into manhood. Several little stands & tables with umbrellas & banners are 
blown over completely. The more concerned sponsors embarrassingly back up their 
entire camps. It's an outsiders nightmare & a locals home favorite kind of condition.  

 It doesn't take long before Go-Go, short for Geronimo, starts scheming to pull 
the kind of prank that makes names and legends and stories such as this one here. 
He's chewing on two pink chocolate sprinkled cakes, shaped like breasts. Chasing 
them down with several gulps of Mad Dog Twenty-twenty & a quaalude or codeine 
'cause his wetsuit has a giant rip in it and he messed up his ankle the night before 
at Oktoberfest. Sleeping in his car in front of Millers Market until pre dawn hours.
He's looking like a coyote running in the back field, while all these pros look like a 
bunch of rabbits, sitting, quiet. Even though they have been in the water for several 
heats or sessions of elimination and judgements on style, distance, etc… Go-Go's 
not even entered in the competition. He's simply going to jump out there and join 
the ranks with a wild sense of piracy that comes with years of life on the water. Like 
a renegade native, getting high on the water. He can't help it. Go Go's dropping in.


 I have heard guys talking about my brother's either bravery or just plain craziness 
in dropping in on the biggies at the break wall. But those were warm Summer swells.
This was after he had dropped out to master Swami's, County Line and Horseshoe. 
Years before the storms took away half the beach from us forever. Back then, there 
were the Hawaiian transplants and Filipino's , the blonde Malibu types and then there 
was Bill. He was my older brothers, best friend's older brother. The first day I met him, 
he was shaping a board in the family garage. He was the conscious of our neighborhood.
A mentor and ex football hero. Now the word is getting and Bill is saying that Go-Go is 
a kook. But everyone else is goading him into it. The b level players like, Gozer, Richie 
and the others. " Yeah Go - Go do it."  So, we're all aware that something is going to 
happen and all the guys that look like newscasters at the table are about to be surprised 
by the " Attack of the Boys from The East End " like a film at the Roadio drive-in. We had 
our own daredevil-jokester-madman-hero and we'd have sent him into anything, just to 
watch him burn, although it was his matchbook, that was always clear, so it didn't seem 
like anyone even thought twice about his safety, except maybe Bill. 

 Of course , it was about the girls too. A guy like Go-Go who wasn't a pretty boy or 
particularly smart or wealthy could crank up his position on the charisma level. He'd 
be King - for - a Day. Could maybe even shack up with a babe for a week or so after 
a performance like this. A guy would build up his story, it circulated, and he'd ride it 
like the wave that Go-Go was hoping to catch. There are boats at bay, in case of any 
emergency and the girls are all in their bikini's and cut off jeans. They must have come 
up from Mexico the way they look, glowing with that peach, amber glow that white girls 
get after a season or two on the road with surfers. The tips of their hair, the tan toes, the 
bright colored clothes and all the wind blown edges of their attitude. Go - Go slips away 
long enough for us to forget about his plan when someone at the surf officials table 
becomes extremely animated and upset, waiving erratically at some thing no one else 
can see. Another official breaks out the bull horn and starts directing the man on the 
break wall to , " Get away from the water. "  Go - Go continues down the wall toward 
the rocky point where locals, who knew the terrain, could jump off by counting the right 
three second interval between the breaking set and the next rising crest. But today, this 
was just plain f@#*ing insane and everybody knew it. 


I started to get concerned. Not like Bill did, by calling him a knuckle head, but fearful 
that a bad thing could happen. And of course a bad thing could happen, that's the 
point of these manhood rituals with the sea and earth and wind and ourselves. But 
Go-Go was built to do this, just like he was built to steal a police car because the cops 
busted up a party where he was about to get laid and it really pissed him off. Some 
were not impressed, whereas we were ecstatic, I mean I was anyway. The place was 
being robbed of it's boundaries, that was the thing. So Go-Go does a run and a jump, 
off the end of the concrete, over the first set of rocks and launches a toes - out - cat - 
like - flight over the six feet of rocks on the outer side of the break wall and into the 
sacred sea. Breaking several rules, disrupting the contest and banishing himself from 
any future competition position according to the Official California Surfing Federation 
handbook of 1970 - something. But Go-Go wasn't saving for retirement, he was building 
up a different account of sorts and was about to hit the long shot on a late bet at roulette. 
Now he's out there and has to drop in on this next big set and do this thing or it'll flop 
and he'll have lost a chance & completely ruined an otherwise decent Winter competition. 
He works quick, paddling into a larger break point which can completely slam you into the 
rocks if your to close at drop in. By now everyone knows what's going on, all eyes are on 
Go - Go. People in our circle start shouting, " Go - Go  you f*#@er ."  Others join in like 
fans at a Rams game or Stones concert, " Go - Gooooooooo, do it man."  Finally, the war 
cry is heard, " G - e - r - o - n - i - m - o  ! "  I look up and even Bill is beaming. As they 
all shouted into the cold, grey sea, Go - Go dropped in and it was then that I started to 
understand what surfing was really all about.

  

 BUREAUofARTSandCULTURE.com  " Go- Go' s Dropping In  "  from  SURFERS and LOWRIDERS  by J.A. TRILIEGI       
   

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