The Thrift Shop Closing party Sept 5th, 7pm
Anne Bassen 9.7.08 @ 6pm
Anne Bassen and invited guest performers will be performing improvisational movement theater in the gallery space on Sept. 7 at 6 pm using found objects and the environment of the gallery as source material.
Ms. Bassen has been performing improvisational dance for fifteen years as well as receiving acclaim for choreographed work. She often creates site specific dances in public spaces such as the community gardens of the East Village. Ms. Bassen has received numerous grants for her work from such notable institutions as the NEA and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Nikola Hansalik 9.12 – 9.26.08
Opening September 13th @ 6pm
This work is a constantly growing collection of found footage image out of magazines.
It shows eyes of fashion models in which the outlines of a dark, indistinctive figure can be seen – the silhouette of the original photographer.
The extreme blow up creates a strange triangle between the viewer, the person looking at you (the eyes) and the black figure also looking out of the image. (normaly the viewer would be the one reflected in the pupil, but the space is already taken by someone else…)
The object-subject matter, who is in control of the view – one of the main issues of photography – is shown on an abstract level.
on view now
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”09.04.-09.30.2010 Opening: Saturday 09.04.2010 7-10pm In September 2010, Peter will be showing a new series of large-scale photographs at Open Source Gallery based on a site-specific installation of his “Trainset Ghetto” sets on the street in front of the gallery storefront space. The images will feature increasingly bizarre and phantasmagorical juxtapositions of time, scale, and [...]
upcoming
ORFI NYC: LIVE GIG 2010
Nobuko: wa
Pirmin Hagen: First
past
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24