Annelise E. Ream
Feb 14th, 11am
The question “What was the appearance of your face before your ancestors were born?” exemplifies what Buddhists call a koan, a meditation tool intended to upset and unbalance the mind and to help the open and relaxed person in contemplation transcend conceptual barriers imposed by language.
In her paintings and drawings, Annelise E. Ream juxtaposes incongruent, often irrational and absurd, images to create visual koans that provide space for the viewer to explore the fragile relationship between objects and meaning. Annelise will be sharing her sketchbooks and working process at Open Source Gallery’s Sunday Sermon on February 14th at 11:00am.
Refreshments will be served during every cHURCH of MONIKA sermon.
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 [...]
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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