+Kris Graves Projects @ Aqua Art Fair- Miami Art Basel December 3-6, 2009

Ruben Natal-San Miguel- Glamour Break, 2009 from the series New York, NY: Concrete Jungle

I am very excited to announce to you all that my own street photography series

NY, NY: CONCRETE JUNGLE, will be part of +Kris Graves Projects @ Aqua Art Miami-Winwood during Miami Art Basel December 3-6,2009. My birthday is December 6 and... what a great birthday present!

I will be showing with some great artists among them Jason Hanasik whose work was chosen among 700 entries for the Aperture Prize and just landed him on the top 6 with an honorable mention.Congratulations Jason!

Thanks Kris and Gravelle, directors of +Kris Graves Projects for the fantastic opportunity and support!

Also special thanks to the great photographer Matthew Pillsbury who is currently editing and curating my photo series.

This by no means will stop my contribution and support to the emerging (hate the word) photographer community. I figure this experience will make me aware of things to help others more and be able to provide better expertise.

More details to come. In the meantime...with the Yankees win and this...I am in a NY state of mind!

http://www.aquaartmiami.com/fairs/Aqua-Wynwood/150/

Artists:

Luke Abiol

Peter Baker
Michael Cardinali
Dana Gentile
Eric Hairabedian
Jason Hanasik
Caleb Jagger
Greg Miller
David Nadel
Daniel Salemi
Michael Robbins
Tricia Zigmund
Sergio A. Fernandez
Ruben Natal-San Miguel

LOOKING FORWARD , FEELING BACKWARDS @ P.P.O.W. GALLERY 10/29/09

Photo by Jason Hanasik, Steven (spotlight) 2007,

digital c-print,

24 x 30 inches,

edition 1 of 6

Not missing this one nor Phil Toledano's America: The Gift Shop. This Thursday, 10/29/09. A lot of artists I like among them: Jason Hanasik, Whitney Hubbs and K8Hardy

See you Thursday!

Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 6:00pm
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:00pm
Location:
P.P.O.W. Gallery
Street:
511 West 25th Street, Room 301 (at 10th Ave)
Description
Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards

Curated by Capricious & Tammy Rae Carland

Becca Albee / Arielle Falk / Jason Hanasik / K8 Hardy
Desiree Holman/ Whitney Hubbs / Ace Lehner Stephanie Leibowitz
/ Elizabeth Moy


October 29 – December 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm


P•P•O•W Gallery, in conjunction with Dotty Attie's exhibition, is pleased to present Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards in Gallery 2 curated by Capricious and artist Tammy Rae Carland. This exhibition is inspired by the forthcoming "Feminist Issue" of Capricious Magazine based on an open call for work about feminist feelings.

By insisting that a dialogue on feelings inflames the specter of feminism, and by asking what the world of feelings looks like, the curators have selected photographic and video works that hold potential for transformative ideas and experience. Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, compulsive hope, political depression, retooling trauma, shameless shame and feelings that have no names are all contending with one another in this group show of eight emerging artists. The curatorial selection gives the personal, political, social and emotional equal weight and emphasizes a generational lens on hope, humor and limitless self-invention.

Tammy Rae Carland was born in Portland Maine in 1965. She received her MFA from UC Irvine, her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where she also chairs the Photography Program. She is represented by Silverman Gallery in San Francisco and primarily works with photography, experimental video and small run publications. Capricious chose to collaborate with her because her work, throughout her career, is seen as pioneering in the realm of contemporary queer and feminist culture.

P.P.O.W. Gallery

Jason Hanasik @ Kris Graves Projects-9/10/09

Jason Hanasik
Two bottles

Jason Hanasik
Steven in a bed of flowers


Ok folks, if you can't be in Manhattan September 10, Brooklyn has some great openings the same night also. Here is one not to miss!

Or do both like... I plan to do!

JASON HANASIK
He Opened Up Somewhere Along The Eastern Shore
&
LIZ JAFF
Diagramming a Fold

September 10th through October 10th, 2009

An Opening Reception of these works will be held on Thursday, September 10th, from 6:00-9:00pm

+Kris Graves Projects is proud to announce the first New York solo
exhibition of photographer Jason Hanasik. Curated by Kris Graves.

“He Opened Up Somewhere Along The Eastern Shore” is a photography
project which engages image-making as a platform to intervene inside
Western culture’s traditions and expectations related to masculinity,
class, and heroism. This project opens up a space for a
counter-narrative to exist. This new narrative focuses on individual
experience, vulnerability, and intimacy as opposed to that which is
enforced by the State, an impenetrable unit of men.

“We, the men of these images and I, might not sit at an equal distance
from the center, but we all have a complicated relationship to what is
considered normal -- to our benefit and our destruction.”

Jason Hanasik was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1981. He received his MFA in Fine Arts with a focus in photography and video from California College of the Arts in 2009. Hanasik's work has been exhibited internationally and is represented by +Kris Graves Projects in Brooklyn, NY. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA.


In the project space, +Kris Graves Projects is pleased to present
Liz Jaff's newest series of works on paper entitled “Diagramming a Fold”
running simultaneous with Hanasik’s photography. The artist has created a sequence of 400 ink drawings that suggest motion using the format of film strips and photographic contact sheets. These works continue the artist’s investigations of ways of defining space through folding.

Liz Jaff lives and works in New York City.

Jason Hanasik’s “He Opened Up Somewhere Along The Eastern Shore” and Liz Jaff’s “Diagramming a Fold” will be on view during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 - 6:00pm and by appointment. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery at 212.796.7558 or email us at: krisgravesprojects@gmail.com
www.krisgravesprojects.com/