Our founder, Jen Bekman, was on FOX Business News, speaking with Eric Bolling about Jen Bekman Projects. The clip is above and if you watch the whole video, the title of my post will make more sense.

We have all been busy here at Jen Bekman Gallery (and all of JBP). Here are some quick links to keep you posted on all that has been going on.

Over at We Covet blog—well, they covet the work of JBG artist Carrie Marill!

Mixtape is open. You can check out install shots and photos from the opening on the gallery Flickr page.

Brad Moore over at ACAD Photo.

Driver steals and deals an Andy Warhol work.

Coolio has a cookbook and The Village Voice is on it, providing the best quotes.

Dan Flavin’s work is up at David Zwirner through December 19th. As always, it is rad.

Painter Allison Schulnik did an awesome video for the band Grizzly Bear.

Lastly, Jen Bekman Gallery will be at PULSE Miami so come by and see the paintings of Sarah McKenzie in booth I-107.

Album 01 by Paul Madonna

Don’t forget to come to the gallery tonight, November 20, 2009! Jen Bekman Gallery will proudly open Mixtape, a group exhibition featuring forty-five original works and limited-edition prints from 20×200, by thirty-six artists. In the spirit of what Geoffrey O’Brien declared the “most widely practiced American art form,” Mixtape brings the studio soundtrack to the gallery walls.

Participating artists include: Michelle Arcila, Ian Baguskas, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Christine Callahan, Christian Chaize, Jorge Colombo, William Crump, Jessica Eaton, Scott Eiden, Clare Grill, Chad Hagen, Nick Hardeman, Joseph O. Holmes, Jason Jagel, Roel Knappstein, Gregory Krum, Liz Kuball, Jeff Lewis, Yijun (Pixy) Liao, Scott Listfield, Paul Madonna, Sarah McKenzie, Mike Monteiro, Jane Mount, Tommy Perman, Gary Petersen, Colleen Plumb, Jason Polan, Tyson Anthony Roberts, Mike Sinclair, Jessica Snow, Trey Speegle, William Swanson, Amy Talluto, Ann Toebbe and Matthew Tischler!

See you soon! If you are out of town, please visit the Mixtape exhibition page here.

Mixtape
Opening Reception: Friday, November 20th, 2009, 6 to 8 p.m.
On View: November 21st – January 9th, 2010*
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6 p.m.*

*The gallery will be closed for the holidays: Nov. 26 – 27 | Dec. 24 – 26 | Jan. 1, 2010

Site by Sarah McKenzie

Jen Bekman Gallery is exhibiting at the PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Thursday, December 3 – Sunday, December 6, 2009. Please join us!

PULSE Miami — Booth I-107
The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136

On view:
Paintings by Sarah McKenzie.

Additional featured artists:
Ian Baguskas, Nina Berman, Mara Bodis Wollner, Christian Chaize, Beth Dow, Joseph O. Holmes, Karolina Karlic, Gregory Krum, Holly Lynton, Carrie Marill, Brad Moore, Hosang Park, Colleen Plumb, Jason Polan, Kent Rogowski, and Carlo Van de Roer.

Bird on Stairs by Colleen Plumb

Colleen Plumb is featured on the NYMPHOTO blog today, in an interview where she discusses her work and her aspirations.

When asked how she discovered photography, Ms. Plumb replies: 

I had a job at a graphic design firm after college and I was restless, I felt like I was not doing what I was supposed to be doing. One day after work I was driving home and it literally struck me all at once: ‘I will go to grad school in photography’ ...I do feel like I still am discovering photography all the time. It keeps getting better and more interesting to me. It is such an intricate language and my goal is to become fluent.

Colleen’s Tiger Rug, Cabrini Green will be featured in our upcoming group exhibition Mixtape. The show opens Friday, November 20th and will be on view from November 21st through January 9th.

Tunnel by Holly Lynton

If you find yourself in LA this Friday, November 13th, consider yourself lucky! You’ll have a much easier time bidding on a photograph by Holly Lynton than us New Yorkers! Kopeikin Gallery will be hosting a silent and live auction as a benefit for the Larchmont Charter School, featuring 100 photographs starting at 70% of their retail value. The auction will also include work by Hey, Hot Shot! contenders Alex Leme, Katie Shapiro and Annie Musselman. You can view the auction catalogue here, and visit the gallery for complete benefit information.

Larchmont Charter School Benefit Auction
Kopeikin Gallery
8810 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA

Tickets to the auction are $25, $30 at the door
To order: call Wendy at (323) 664-8034 or email desk@kopeikingallery.com

Speaking of auctions, don’t forget that Holly is also participating in SF Camerawork’s annual auction along with five fellow JBG artists, Nina Berman, Christine Callahan, Holly Lynton, Joe Holmes and Colleen Plumb. The catalogue is available for online preview and the exhibition viewing will begin today, Tuesday, November 10th. The auction will commence Saturday, December 5th at 1 p.m. More details are available here.

Start your bidding!

Howon-dong | 40” x 50” | Edition of 5 | Digital C-Print
Larger views and image details are available on our Flickr page

Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to announce the extension of  A Square through November 14th. Hosang Park is one of two artists to be awarded representation by Jen Bekman Gallery in 2008 through the international photography competition, Hey, Hot Shot!

Park, a Korea-based artist, began taking aerial photographs of parks that are often developed alongside luxury apartment buildings in Seoul. His resulting images in A Square flatten the spaces into geometric surfaces reminiscent of modernist abstraction.

Recently DLK Collection posted a review of the exhibition; there is more to Park’s photographs than meets the on-screen eye. Associate Director of the gallery, Jeffrey Teuton, also talks about the subtle details of Park’s work in the 20×200 reprise of the artist’s two editions.

Cover image of Kate’s book!

As if truly catching up with the industrious Kate Bingaman-Burt is really possible! Kate is always involved in multiple projects while planning and scheming her next wonderful art adventure. In fact, she is working on mixtape drawings that will be on view at Jen Bekman Gallery at the end of this month! The lovely lady is truly an inspiration.

Her book Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? which chronicles her decade of daily consumption is now up on Amazon. Sadly it has not yet been released for pre-orders. Still, it is pretty exciting to see and anticipate! I am marking the release date, March 31, 2010 in my calendar! Congrats, Kate!

More immediately, Kate’s work will be exhibited in three shows in three cities opening this Friday.
Choose your city for complete exhibition details:
New York
Austin
St. Louis

Want more Kate? Visit her site: Obsessive Consumption and view her editions, I Bought All of These, Drawings from July 2009 and Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 on 20×200.

Leaning Tower by Beth Dow

Jen Bekman Gallery artist Beth Dow will be participating in a group exhibition, entitled The Minnesota Eye: Contemporary Photography, at CVA Gallery in Saint Paul, Minnesota, along with several other talented photographers. You can read more on the exhibit in this week’s StarTribune article. The show is currently up until November 14th. Don’t miss it!

Rocks by Jason Polan

In Raleigh, North Carolina, there will be an opening November 6th 7-10pm for Jason Polan’s solo show, Please Trust Me, at Lump Gallery . It sounds like it will be a fantastically eclectic exhibition, with source material ranging from comic book panels, to pages from LIFE Magazine, to notes found on the street. It will be up until November 28th.

If you happen to be in either of those areas be sure to check these shows out! I’m sure they will not fail to impress.