Untitled by Anna Ullman

Isobel Schofield and Jacob Rhodes of Try Benefit Art Show blog are using our gallery space for a silent auction later this month to raise money for Team in Training (TNT), which is part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  In addition to auctioning their artwork, Isobel and Jacob are also training for a triathlon with TNT. The organization raises money to help combat and find a cures for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Myelom. At the silent auction for TNT, works by over a dozen artists will donated with all proceeds going directly towards finding a cure for cancer.

The Details:
Saturday, Aug 28th
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Auction Winners being announced at 9:00 p.m.
Where: Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, NY NY
Check out artists and work in the auction here.

Come out to show these artists your support and help find a cure for cancer!

From the series Female Bodybuilders by Martin Schoeller

Ever feel like Chelsea more or less shuts down for summer vacation during July and August? Well, as if to specifically prove this assumption wrong, a group of terrific Chelsea galleries have come together and organized the first ever Art Walk Chelsea, this Thursday, July 29, from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. The official, website description reads as follows:

Please join us on July 29, 2010 from 5- 8 PM for the first annual Chelsea Art Walk, a cooperative event organized by over 25 galleries throughout northern Chelsea. With busy summer schedules, it can be difficult to make the trip to Chelsea during regular business hours. Participating galleries will offer extended hours and special events that showcase the vibrancy of the summer arts scene in Chelsea, while local sponsors will offer food and drink specials throughout the evening.

Just a few of the stellar galleries participating are Cheim & Read, ClampArt, Marlborough Chelsea, P.P.O.W., and Yossi Milo Gallery. One highlight will include a book-signing by Martin Schoeller (responsible for the virtually indescribable image above) at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m..

A complete list of participants, and specific event details can be found at the Art Walk Chelsea website.

Placed Places by William Wegman | 42” x 46” | oil and postcards on panel

Please join us on Wednesday, June 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. at the opening reception for Land Use Survey, featuring photographs, paintings and works on paper by twenty-seven artists.

Land Use Survey functions as a critical appraisal of land use across the country, as a document of the changing landscape vernacular, and as a celebration of the artists who take diverse approaches to capturing this genre. The show opens with a series of landscapes that remain untouched by man. Slowly, signs of human intrusion begin to appear: car tracks, empty bottles, a retaining wall and piles of dirt. As one progresses through the exhibition, both in the gallery space and within the areas described by the works, increasingly more land turns over to commercial and residential development, before finally giving way to the dizzying geometries of the modern metropolis.

The exhibition features work by Ian Baguskas, Chris Ballantyne, Beth Dow, Christoph Gielen, Todd Hido, Liz Kuball,Nick Lamia, Scott Lawrence, Michael Lundgren, Alex MacLean, David Maisel, Paho Mann, Louisa McElwain, Sarah McKenzie, Joel Meyerowitz, Dana Miller, Brad Moore, Matthew Moore, Michelle Muldrow, Justin Newhall, Ross Racine, Tyson Anthony Roberts, Andrew Scott Ross, Aili Schmeltz, Bryan Schutmaat, Alec Soth and William Wegman.

The exhibition will be on view from July 1 through August 14, 2010. (The gallery will be closed on July 3rd, 4th and 5th for the holiday).

Kate-Bingaman-Burt began her Obsessive Consumption series in 2002 by drawing the purchases she made in her distinct and whimsical style. The idea was, and still is, to record our relationship with mass consumer products in a capitalist economy—as both a parody and a celebration—of what we want, need, and think we need, to get by.  This April, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? was released in printed-and-bound form by Princeton Architectural Press. Kate will be at the gallery with her book on Thursday, June 17th, talking about her stories of the things we buy—from parking tickets, coffee, packs of gum and shoes, to electricity bills and burritos. The book is a selection of three years worth of ink drawings of these sundry items, that manifests as a journal, a catalogue and critical commentary all at once.

Kate will be bringing her signed Super Duper Limited Edition Pack of the book and host a drawing event that’ll encourage others to draw what they have purchased during the event on the 17th. The Limited Edition Pack is available for $30.00 and includes a copy of Obsessive Consumption, plus a daily drawing, imprinted pencils and blank sheets for others to draw on. So, if you’re in town, come get a little artistic, meet an awesome artist, an oh yeah—buy something on your way.

Kate Bingaman-Burt Book Signing & Draw-a-thon
Thursday, June 17th at Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street, New York, NY

12:00 – 6:30 p.m.: Kate signs copies of Obsessive Consumption and hosts a drawing event to promote others to draw the items they have purchased that day.
6:30 – 8 p.m.:  Kate speaks with Faran Krentcil, the Digital Director of NYLON, giving an informal presentation about her work.

Later that week, Kate will be on NPR’s Studio 360, where they are asking her to give Uncle Sam a makeover. For more information go to Studio 360.

Sand No. 98 (2006/10) by Gregory Krum | 18” x 13” | Archival Pigment Print

A few treasures from the Internet to get you through the week:

The Frick has a bowling alley!

Check out the installations and paintings by Jacob Dahlgreen.

I just have to post this- Jeffrey Deitch after getting a bloody nose at the Shepard Fairey (yawn) swan song Deitch opening- the video. I think a little blood helps butch up a pink suit.

Dave Harper is killing it with awesome clips for Best Link Ever at Art Fag City. This week is good but nothing beats this!

Donald Judd library online! All I know is intern Casey G. spent the better part of a night on this site.

Reverse volume bowls by Mischer Traxler are the perfect thing to add to my odd fruit/vegetable mold collection. (not kidding)

Flying Spaghetti Monster or Spaghetti Cat?

Mamma Andersson at Zwirner. Go see it.

Great new Darren Almond photogravures at Crown Point Press. They are not on the site just yet, but you can catch a glimpse in the new Artforum.

William Powhida is giving a lecture on Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery on May 14.

Vantasy by Ryan Humphrey

Please join us on Sunday, May 16th from 2-5 p.m. for a leisurely afternoon stroll to a few of our favorite LES galleries led by JBP’s own Philae Knight. The group will meet at 2:00 p.m. at Invisible-Exports and finish up at JBG, where you can relax with a glass of wine and a brief talk by Associate Director Jeffrey Teuton about the work of Gregory Krum, whose solo exhibition, ...Practice…, will be on view.

Artists Penelope Umbrico and Ryan Humphrey will also be on hand to talk about their work and exhibitions at LMAK and DCKT galleries, two stops along the way.

Space is limited so please RSVP to info@jenbekman.com by Saturday, May 15th.

JBG LES Gallery Walk Schedule
2:00 – Invisible Exports: A Vernacular of Violence, Group Show
2:30 - Stephan Stoyanov Gallery: Future Tense, Group Show
3:00 – LMAK: As Is, a solo exhibition by Penelope Umbrico (artist will be in attendance)
3:30 – 11 Rivington: Hilary Berseth, a solo exhibition by Hilary Berseth
4:00 – Salon 94 BOWERY: T-Shirt Paintings: Hippie Punk, a solo exhibition by Richard Prince
4:30 – DCKT: Early American, a solo exhibition by Ryan Humphrey (artist will be in attendance)
5:00 – Jen Bekman Gallery: ...Practice…, a solo exhibition by Gregory Krum

We look forward to seeing you; don’t forget to RSVP and reserve a spot!

What I love in the artworld:

• Artists that make profound, engaging and hard work that has the capacity to connect us to the time and place in which we live as well as to one another.


• Those that are able to make an art in and of itself about how they live to make their work; i.e. making it really and truly accessible, favoring real solutions to artistic problems (such as vehicle by which to most honestly display and show work) versus gimmickry.


• Creators that are truly contagiously enthusiastic (grateful, even!) about what it is they do and the forum they get to do it in.


• Art makers that possess an innate fluency in talking about their work and the trajectory of art as a whole in addition to managing to fashion new and innovative ways to connect their art to new audiences and to create a venue for people to have the experience of art in surprising and unaffected ways.

Untitled by Zoe Strauss

Artist-We-Love Zoe Strauss is and continues to do and be all of the above, and raging force of awesomeness that she is, we can’t say enough good things about her. What we can do, however, is give you the skinny on what she’s doing right now so that you can see some of this genius goodness for yourself. Check it:

In anticipation of Strauss’s 10th Annual I-95 Show (more on that in a second), she is preparing a couple of fundraising events that any enterprising collector of contemporary American photography should seriously consider supporting.  The first is a Polaroid event tomorrow, Saturday March 27th, in Philadelphia. For $25 dollars, you can get your portrait taken by Zoe in front of one of these four hopelessly amazing backdrops. The one of the lights at Philly Stadium is my favorite:

There are only 50 portrait appointments available, so if you’re interested act fast.  Here are the details as per Ms. Strauss:

Come get a polaroid taken by me.
25 dollars per polaroid

50 polaroids are available and you must rsvp to insure getting a photo.

Reserve a photo by emailing me at info (at) zoestrauss (dot) com…

put Polaroid in the subject line

and

tell me your name
and the time slot you’ll be coming
1pm-2pm
2pm-3pm
3pm-4pm

that’s it! Then just get over to the studio!

25 dollars per polaroid
cash only

March 27th
1 to 4 PM

At PAP headquarters

838 Cantrell St.
Philadelphia, PA
19148

The second fundraiser you can do sitting from your chair where you’re reading now. Strauss is offering limited-edition photographs of the 1-95 project from each year running for $250 a piece.
Untitled Countdown Dated Edition Photo page.

Finally, if you don’t yet know about Zoe’s epic I-95 project, you are in for that rare example of applied ingenuity and raw talent that is hoped for in any artistic endeavor.  In short, Strauss has been making images of denizens and place in her hometown of Philadelphia, in worthy succession to a street photography lineage echoing Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand  and even William Eggleston, for more than 10 years, and annually holding a public art installation of these images on the concrete supporting slabs in the same underpass of I-95 every first Sunday in May.  Of the project, she has said:

I’m very proud to be an American, while simultaneously I’m really very devastated by our history and our actions.  How to reconcile these two things is very interesting to me.

The story is less about Philadelphia, a specific place, and more about a kind of all-encompassing epic that’s about everyplace.

The show is a 10-year long project; it won’t be so much speaking about the current moment as it will be about talking about the entire decade…At 4pm the show is done, and that means if people want to take the photographs they can.  It’s not a commodity in terms of “I’m putting these up, and then I’m going to take them down”—as if there is some worth for that.  The worth is the moment in which they’re up.  That 3 hour time period in which it’s all up and together.

Searching for a bit more context?  Need a reason to journey to an interstate underpass in Philadelphia in the spring?  Watch this mini-documentary about the project:

This will be the very last year that this public installation will be put up by Zoe Strauss, so mark your calendars now for this last chance at a truly unique American art event:

I-95.10

Sunday, May 2th, 2010
On view: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Under I-95 at Front St. and Mifflin St.

The Assembled Picture Library in action at The Esopus Foundation, March 2010

Last month we told you all about the cool collaboration that Jason Polan and Robin Cameron are doing at the Esopus Foundation. For the last 30 days both artists have contributed materials and their time to be on hand for any passersby that want to drop in, select some ephemera to play with, and create a piece of art to hang on the gallery walls. The idea of sharing the process and materials of artmaking with those that may or may not be so accustomed to making work themselves is a large part of the charm of the exhibition’s conceit, as well as being just another one of those reasons that it’s so cool to live in New York. These artworks have been created and on display since February 16th and will continue to be for just one more day ‘till this Thursday, March 18th. With this process-project and installation, the end goal of Polan and Cameron was, “... to create a collaborative and creative relationship with the general public, and also to enable a sense of community around artists’ processes.”

This was made with images from the APLNY

As the exhibition draws to a close, there is one final event that we’d like to draw (er, no pun intended) your attention to, and that is the simultaneous exhibition closing reception and book launch on Thursday, March 18th from 6-8 p.m. Polan and Cameron, long interested in the printed page, have created a book featuring the artists’ work from the past month, and this book will be available for purchase at the closing reception. For a really in-depth writeup of the project and its progress, take a moment to read Eric J. Herboth’s piece in the The AWL about it.

The Assembled Picture Library Closing Reception & Book Launch
Thursday, March 18th from 6-8 p.m.
The Esopus Foundation Ltd.
64 West Third Street, #210
New York, New York 10012

Jason Polan, one our most endearing and prolific artists, is collaborating with Robin Cameron and the entire city of New York, in The Assembled Picture Library of New York City at the Esopus Foundation, tonight, February 16, 2010 through March 18, 2010.

From the press release:

The Esopus Foundation will host a collaborative exhibition.
Visitors will be invited to come in during gallery hours
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday from 12-6pm

The Assembled Picture Library of New York City will provide free and open access to a set of images. The collection will be initiated by the personal archive of Robin Cameron and Jason Polan. Visitors are encouraged to submit images to build upon the collection. A copy machine and workspace will be open for use to make new artwork from the available materials. Within this collection is unorganized manuscripts, vintage advertisements of strange products, rare prints, photographs of points of interest, modest drawings and more. With this project, the artists hope to create a collaborative and creative relationship with the general public, and also to enable a sense of community around artists’ processes.

The Esopus Foundation, LTD
64 WEST THIRD STREET, #210
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012
PHONE: (212) 473-0919

The exhibition will provide access to and use of hundreds of drawings and materials and ephemera from the collections of Polan and Cameron. Anyone is free to participate, and the gallery is open to view, use and peruse Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 12-5 throughout the duration of the show. You are also invited to submit your own images and ephemera to the source collection, and these collaborative artworks made by the public will be on display on the Esopus Gallery walls through March 18, 2010. Jason Polan and Robin Cameron will be on hand throughout the duration of the show to work with the visiting public-artists and to engage in dialogue with them about the project.

From the NYAB:

With this project, the artists hope to create a collaborative and creative relationship with the general public—an important component of both Cameron and Polan’s previous work, as well as an essential aspect of the Esopus Foundation’s mission. The artists are also interested in engendering a sense of community around the production of self-published books, zines, and editions. Along those lines, Polan and Cameron will create a book featuring visitors’ artworks, The Assembled Picture Library of New York Book, that will be available at the closing reception on March 18.

If you’re one for installation, collage, public and community art works, or just merely curious what all this stuff looks like, drop by during gallery hours and consider making a piece of art with other artist’s materials! It starts today, and Jason will be there to assist in your art-making.

More information can be found at http://aplny.tumblr.com/.

Last week we wrote about our upcoming 20×200 print giveaway at Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturday, and we wanted to send you a quick reminder to cancel all your other plans, because it’s happening this Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.! All 200 8”x10” prints from Valerie Hegarty’s gorgeous forthcoming edition, First Harvest in the Wilderness with Pileated Woodpecker are packed, our brand new 20×200 banner has arrived, and we’re uhhh…still brainstorming on our apparel. We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be an awesome evening full of talks, music, film, dancing and art.

Ms. Jen Bekman will be speaking, exclusively to 1stfans, about 20×200 and JBP’s approach to supporting artists. So, after you’ve started or renewed your 1stfans membership (and picked up Valerie’s print!), join us for a talk!

We’ll be giving away 10”x8” prints by artist Valerie Hegarty to new and renewing 1stfans members and Ms. Jen Bekman herself will be speaking to an intimate group of 1stfans at a meetup. Meetups are an opportunity for 1stfans to interact exclusively with the Museum’s staff, its collections, artists, and other members every month at Target First Saturdays.

Bierstadt with Holes, 2007 by Valerie Hegarty

20×200 has been collaborating with 1stfans founders, Shelley Bernstein and Will Cary, and artist Valerie Hegarty over the last few months to produce this unique benefit edition. For the first time ever, collectors will be able to pick up a print in person and become a 1stfans member all for the ridiculously affordable cost of $20! 1stfans is the Brooklyn Museums’s socially networked membership. Valerie Hegarty and 20×200 have donated the prints for this event.

If you can’t make it to the event, you’ll have another chance to pick up one of Valerie’s prints plus the 1stfans membership. We’ll release the prints in two larger sizes, 14”x11” and 20”x16,” the following week on 20×200. Every print from Valerie’s edition will include a one-year membership to 1stfans and the proceeds from the print will benefit the Brooklyn Museum as well. The prints are gorgeous and we think they’ll go fast, make sure you’re signed up for Jen’s newsletter to get first dibs on one!

Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Jen’s talk | 8:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Danziger Projects (James Desk) from Workspaces by Joseph O. Holmes

JBG artist and 20×200 edition-maker Joseph O. Holmes has been included in the upcoming show The Year in Pictures at Danziger Projects, opening this Thursday. The show, which has been put on annually since 2007, is curated from work that has been featured in the last year on the popular Year in Pictures blog of gallery owner James Danziger.

Danziger writes,

The 15 contemporary photographers featured in the show represent 9 different countries – Saudi Arabia, Korea, Denmark, Britain, Mexico, Japan, France, Canada, and the U.S.. Over half have work I had originally only seen via the internet, evidencing the well-known power of the web as a connector, and what is sometimes taken for granted – the web’s unrivalled capacity as a transmitter of photographic images.

Earlier this year, Joe and Danziger crossed paths when Joe was working on his Workspace series, candidly documenting the unique spaces in which people do their work.

About the series, Joe writes,

Because I document a space exactly as I find it, never arranged for the camera, the Workspace project is necessarily a spontaneous process. I can’t, for example, call ahead and explain what I’m after without inviting the destruction of what I hope to capture. Lately I’ve been finding workspaces by walking in off the street with camera and tripod and simply asking (though “simply asking” doesn’t quite convey the complex dance of explanation, skepticism, persuasion, and fascination that goes back and forth). What I end up capturing, then, turns out to be the work that was interrupted to answer the door.

Danziger responded, “As I like both my workspace and Joe’s work, I was happy to co-operate and now his picture (above) is about to be all that remains as a visual record of where I’ve sat for the last five years, often writing this blog!”

Congratulations to Joe and to Danziger Projects on the show, which we cannot wait to see!

You can view the full Workspace series on Joe’s website and grab limited-edition prints on 20×200. Keep your eyes peeled because we’ll be opening a solo-show of Joe’s work later this year at Jen Bekman Gallery.

The Year in Pictures
Danziger Projects
Opening reception: January 21, 6-8 p.m.
534 West 24th Street
New York, New York 10011 USA

Featuring: Jowhara AlSaud, Chan-Hyo Bae, Thomas Bangsted, Mandy Corrado, Stephen Gill, Joseph Holmes, Alejandra Laviada, Greg Miller, David Schoerner, Patrick Smith, Tommy Ton, Scout Tufankjian, Oliver Warden, Katherine Wolkoff and Tsukasa Yokozawa.

West Nineteenth Street (Yellow Dress) by Joseph O. Holmes

Exterior 1 by Sarah McKenzie

In Miami? Come visit us at the PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair. We’ll be featuring paintings by Sarah McKenzie and also have work by Ian Baguskas, Mara Bodis Wollner, Christian Chaize, Beth Dow, Joseph O. Holmes, Gregory Krum, Holly Lynton, Carrie Marill, Brad Moore, Hosang Park, Colleen Plumb, Jason Polan, Kent Rogowski and Carlo Van de Roer on view. The fair opens with a VIP preview at 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 3rd and remains open through Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Please come visit us!

Location: Booth I-107.
On View: December 3 – 6, 2009

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

Hope to see you there!

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.

On Tuesday, October 20th, the gallery will host the Official Release Party for City Walks Architecture: New York, published by Chronicle Books.

First, join us for drinks and view Hosang Park’s photographs included in his exhibition, A Square. Then, author Alissa Walker will lead the group on a stroll through the ever-changing Lower East Side with special stops at the New Museum, the Storefront for Art & Architecture and more. The evening winds up back at the JB Gallery for a tasting of four special New York-inspired flavors of gelato from il laboratorio del gelato. You will be able to purchase a copy of the book, on-site, that evening, and Alissa will sign your favorite neighborhood!

Order of Events:
6 p.m. — Meet at Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street
7-8:30 p.m. — Walk through the LES
8:30 p.m. — Gelato reception at Jen Bekman Gallery

Alissa will be leading a Week of Walks, from October 18th to the 24th, taking six different urban adventures based on City Walks Architecture: New York! For a full list of other walks you can check out Alissa’s blog—Gelatobaby. The Brooklyn Bridge, High Line, Broadway Skyscrapers and more are all on the schedule!

All walks are free and require no advanced reservation, simply show up at the denoted time ready to walk. All tours include a complimentary serving of gelato or ice cream, plus all attendees will receive a coupon good for a discount on City Walks Architecture: New York.

About City Walks Architecture: New York (stolen from the Chronicle website):

City Walks Architecture: New York—Packed with 25 walking adventures, this unique guide uncovers the Big Apple’s most breathtaking buildings, parks, and monuments! Each card focuses on a specific area and features helpful background information, detailed walking instructions, a full-color map, and stunning photography. Covering both landmark structures and little-known wonders, this is the perfect gift for design-savvy travelers and adventurous locals alike.

Walks include:
Greenwich Village
Empire State Building
Central Park
World Trade Center Site
And more!

For all book-lovers and art-lovers alike!
Starting this weekend, October 2nd, Printed Matter will host its 4th annual NY Art Book Fair at PS. 1. Free and open to the public, Printed Matter takes over three floors to exhibit the best of the best contemporary art publications from international presses, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and independent artists and publishers.

All weekend long, PS.1 will be infiltrated by stimulating exhibitors, lectures, performances and the second annual Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference. The diverse programming includes: a featured exhibition of Richard Prince; Calling All Readers, a retrospective of influential artists’ books and posters from the 1970s onward; a DIY exhibition of rare zines and hand-packaged DVDs by zine-makers, artists, collectives and young publishers; a solo exhibition of Canadian photographer and film-maker Bruce LaBruce, as well as Dexter Sinister, EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix), Gallery 360º from Tokyo, and the entire student body of Dutch super-school Werkplaats Typografie.

On the third floor, the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference features a keynote session by artists Maria Eichhorn, Hans Haacke, and Seth Siegelaub in conversation with MoMA curator Christophe Cherix.

Other events include titillating electro performances by Hot Box and DubbknowDubb, book signings, and unique events to the NY Art Book Fair such as the artist-driven program The Classroom and Learn To Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
For more information and the complete list of exhibitors and programming check out their website at www.nyartfair.com

You can see today’s 20×200 edition maker Mickey Smith’s large-scale works on display there this weekend. Collocation No. 4 (TODAY)—a fifty panel piece printed on canvas—will be on display at the Invisible-Exports Booth #005.

The fair is open for preview, Thursday October 1st, 6-8pm. Following the preview, a BENEFIT will be held for Printed Matter @ Deitch Studios, in Long Island City. Tickets begin at $20 and included limited artist editions by Elmgreen & Dragset, Jutta Koether, Tom Sachs, and Mungo Thomson. The night will also feature industrial punk-and-dub duo, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance and Sadie Laska of Growing), and vintage house DJs Tim Lokiec and Gary Murphy.

Benefit for Printed Matter:
October 1, 8:30 PM
Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive at the East River waterfront
Long Island City, NY
MAP
Purchase benefit tickets online at www.nyartbookfair.com or call 212 925 0325.

Fair Location
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
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Fair Hours:
Friday/Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 11am – 5pm

Though the Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 First Edition Exhibition is only up at JB Gallery for a few more days, on Tuesday, September 29th, you’ll have another opportunity to mingle with Hot Shots. Team JBP is hosting the first-ever Hey, Hot Shot! Confab + Print Trade at White Rabbit from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Come mingle with past and former Hot Shots, esteemed panelists, contenders and fellow artists.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to RSVP@heyhotshot.com.

We’ll also be having a Print Trade! To participate, bring an 8.5” x 11” (or smaller) photographic print of your own and leave the party with another artist’s work! When you RSVP, please send a jpeg (800 pixels wide, 72 dpi) of the print you plan to bring to RSVP@heyhotshot.com.

We’ll also have drink specials, giveaways from our generous sponsors at Arlo/Artists and Crumpler—with a few surprises from JBP as well—and ample opportunities to meet fellow photographers and artists in the JBP community.

If you’re interested in applying to Hey, Hot Shot! and want to know more about the competition, more information is available on the site. Or, come by the confab and ask us about it in-person.

Faering, 2007 by Michelle Arcila

Why don’t you join the New Museum as they lead two groups of tours around LES galleries! It is this Sunday, September 13 with a group leaving at noon and another at 3 p.m. Both groups meet in the New Museum Lobby and take off from there. Each tour is different so come to both!

The JB Gallery’s Associate Director, Jeffrey Teuton (me) will be around to talk about the current Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 First Edition Exhibition that is currently on view, as well as other Jen Bekman Projects, like the Hey, Hot Shot! competition itself and 20×200. The show looks great so I suggest you take advantage and get here before it comes down on September 19!

LES Gallery Tour Group One 12 PM @ The New Museum Lobby
DCKT Contemporary (I love the current show, LOVE), Jen Bekman Gallery, CANADA, James Fuentes LLC, Rental,Invisible-Exports, Lisa Cooley, Rachel Uffner, Number 35.

LES Gallery Tour Group Two 3 PM @ The New Museum Lobby
Sue Scott, Thierry Goldberg Projects (a great painting show is up), Eleven Rivington, KumuKumu, Nicelle Beauchene, LMAK Projects, Small A Project, On Stellar Rays, Sloan Fine Art, SUNDAY.

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
MAP

Be there or be boring and sleep all day.

If I Had a Voice I Would Sing, 2009 by Michelle Arcila

So it seems, summer is over. It’s the first week of September and already the weather is cooling off; the city is once again flooded with people returning from their vacations, new students are arriving to begin college, no more concerts in the Park, no more beach trips… and I’m not ready. Everyone is back to the grind, and with all the rain we had this summer, I’m not wiling to surrender to September just yet. Here are some ways I’m trying to keep the relaxing days of summer with me as long as I can. Please, come with me!

Take one last—or first, if you were tragically stranded in the city—summer retreat with this animated video by New York Times contributor Jeff Scher, titled Summer Retreat. It’s a relaxing, beautiful short that manages to make you feel like it’s July at the beach in only one and a half minutes.

I keep going back to Hot Shot Michelle Arcila’s photographs; her work never ceases to amaze. I especially love her set In August from her Flickr Photostream, which Jeffrey linked to in an earlier post, also about the end of summer. The set contains some beautifully serene photographs, including staple summer scenes like lake-swimming and a blanket blowing in the wind of the woods.

For an away-from-the-computer-and-outside activity, I’m looking forward to checking out Dome Colony X at the San Gabriels created by Fritz Haeg at x-initiative on 22nd Street between 10th and 11th Ave. The show space contains, “a shifting encampment or colony of four geodesic dome tents for occupations, gatherings, regular meetings, and intimate organized activities,” all set within a mural of LA’s own San Gabriel mountains. As a native Los Angeleno myself, I’m very interested in seeing this 8000 square foot “Mountain Colony.” Find out more on their website or just go! It’s running until October 24, Wed.-Sat. 11am-6pm.

Am I the only one who hasn’t been to the High Line? I’m going this weekend. Also, just watched this video on Governors Island— perfect summer activity, seven minute ferry ride away and it’s open year-round. It’s still warm enough and I don’t have a pile of work on my desk just yet, so I’m going to get on it before the leaves change and the wind picks up and the snow starts to fall…

i have found what you are like by Amy Ross

Bostonians, lend me your ear! 20×200 sweetheart and Jen Bekman Gallery artist, Amy Ross, will take part in South End Open Studios on Saturday, September 19th & Sunday, September 20th.

Amy will also have work in an upcoming group show, Gone to the Dogs, at Denise Bibro Fine Art. The show will run through November 7th, with an opening reception from 6 – 8pm on October 8th.

Gone to the Dogs
October 8 – November 7, 2009
Denise Bibro Fine Art
529 West 20th Street 4W | NYC

P.S.
The painting above is named after an e. e. cummings poem, so here it is for you to enjoy:

i have found what you are like
the rain,

(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields

easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike

the air in utterable coolness

deeds of green thrilling light

with thinned

newfragile yellows

lurch and.press

-in the woods

which stutter and sing

And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,

your kiss

American Heritage Encyclopedia by Hot Shot Parsley Steinweiss

Mark your calendars! Before you know it it will be Thursday, September 10th! On this day from 6-8pm be sure to swing by Jen Bekman Gallery to see our Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 First Edition Group Exhibition. You’ll see photographs from a brilliant bunch:

Michelle Arcila
Daniel Cheek
Mike Sinclair
Parsley Steinweiss
and Kurt Tong

See you there!

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10th, 6pm – 8pm
On View: September 10 through September 19, 2009