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

History Keeps Me Awake At Night @ P.P.O.W.

Artmostfierce recommends checking out this show !

Reception- July 10, 2008!

See you there!

This show is probably one of the best Summer 2008 curated group shows!

And our dear Photographer, Blogger and Sista Zoe Strauss is part of the show!

Go Zoe!
Please read below gallery press release.

David Wojnarowicz in collaboration with Tom Warren
Portrait/Self Portrait of David Wojnarowicz , 1983-85, mixed media, 60 x 40







ZOE STRAUSS With Love, 2008 13 x 19 inchesacrylival inkjet print

Wolfgang Tillmans dark room , 2002c-print12 x 16 inches

Carrie Mae Weems Untitled from The Hampton Project , 2000inkjet print on canvasedition of 5 61 x 69 inches

Please read P.P.O.W. gallery press release for this show below:


“David Wojnarowicz’s intention is explicitly ideological: his aim is to affect the world at large; he attempts to create imaginary weapons to resist established powers.” - Felix Guattari, 1989

This show presents the work of a select group of contemporary artists that have been the beneficiaries of David Wojnarowicz’s art, writings, and voice. Although it has been sixteen years since his death in 1992, the potency of David’s work and message still reverberates and affects those who come into contact with it. None of these artists knew David Wojnarowicz personally but they all have work that is directly connected to him. The work of these artists is uniquely theirs, but all of them are bound by the influence David has had on them, each in their own specific way. This is not a memorial, this is not a re-iteration or duplication, this is an exhibition that brings artists from different countries, backgrounds and aesthetics to a single space to show how the work and life of David Wojnarowicz continues to inform artists today.

“My paintings are my own written versions of history, which I don’t look at as being linear. I don’t obey the time elements of history or space and distance or whatever; I fuse them all together. For me, it gives me strength to make things, it gives me strength to offer proof of my existence in this form. I think anybody who is impoverished in any way, whether psychically or physically, tends to want to build rather than destroy.”
- David Wojnarowicz 1989 in an interview with Barry Blinderman


David Wojnarowicz was born in 1954 in New Jersey and died of AIDS in 1992. He was a leading artist in New York’s Lower East Side art movement during the 1980s and was a vocal activist against homophobia and AIDS discrimination. After his diagnosis in 1988 David became more involved in activism, especially with ACT UP. He brought his fight for freedom of expression all the way to the Supreme Court in Wojnarowicz v. American Family Association in which Donald E. Wildmon misused David’s work in an attempt to show that it was pornographic and against family values. David won this case and was awarded a symbolic $1.00. David was a multi-disciplinary artist who used photography, painting, collage, sculpture and film to visually present social and political issues. Many of these issues overlapped with his writings, which were numerous. Titles of his writings include, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration; Memories That Smell Like Gasoline and The Waterfront Journals. From the beginning his art making was deeply collaborative with fellow artists; whether it be at the piers, in galleries, or in films and music, these collaborations were constant and essential in developing his artistic skill, vocabulary and impact.

Don't miss this one!

Pulse Art Fair

The Pulse Art Fair was quite good. See below some highlights of the show.


At P.P. O.W. Gallery booth they were some great pieces.
The work of Julie Hefferman, Carolee Schneemann and Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz were ARTmostfierce favorites.


JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Slow Growth, 2008oil on canvas, 86 x 56 inches

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN Nude on Tracks1975/2005, 1 of sequence of 5, archival Giclee print on Hahn rag with pigmented ink, 18 x 26 inches

WALTER MARTIN & PALOMA MUÑOZ Blindness , 2007c-print35 x 69 inches

I really liked the elegant chandelier that artist and old friend of mine Yeni Mao was commissioned to create for the Pulse VIP lounge. In my opinion it was quite beautiful. Yeni also has some affordable pieces in limited editions available at Art Ware Editions. See link below for more info.

Bobby Neal Adams

c-underbelly C print edition 1/3 72 x 27 1/4 inches

At the Schroeder Romero Gallery booth the photographs of Bobby Neal Adams were not to be missed due to their size and visual effect. The airplane images on the air at different locations explore its relation with the environment and surroundings below. They have a dramatic effect and gives the urge to hop in a plane and disappear! Quite nice indeed!

Bobby Neal Adams
Venus C print edition 1/3 72 x 27 1/4 inches

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