Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens

April 8th – May 5th
Opening Reception: April 10th, 7-10pm

“Youens regards the tabletop as a place of expansion and Baroque elaboration,where questions of verity and fiction dissolve in imagery that is part of a sequential whole; like stanzas in long poems, having neither predictable beginnings nor definite endings. They speak of poetry, structure, and ragged nature.’ Jim Long

Youen’s paintings find order within disorder. Working from tableaus of still life abundance—foodstuffs and flowers, cloth, wood, and pottery, the fragments of material excess—she translates the asymmetry of objects and allusions into poetic allegories of plentitude and loss, evoking the complexities of affluence and the labor of transformation. Rachel Youens is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brooklyn College, CUNY. She was a Pollock-Krasner recipient in 2005 and a 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellow.

“Deconstruction” by Anne Phelan, directed by Nicole A. Watson

7:30 and 8:30 on April 10th

right bottom corner: Parker Leventert, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, Cotton Wright and Director Nicole A. Watson

“Deconstruction” takes place a few years from now, after the U. S. has been defeated in World War III. In some major American city, Emma and Trudy are assigned to the same work detail to clean up the post-war rubble. Their very different pasts and personalities clash immediately.

on view now

Opening Reception: May 5th, 2012, 7-9pm May 6th – June 3rd With Spring and Renewal, artist Patrick Cadenhead seeks to create a multi-sensory meditation on religion, laundry, and our denial of decay. Large sculptures caked in common cleaning products make up this installation, as active fountains push water and soap over and through, constantly changing [...]

upcoming

MS 136
Koko
eL Paper
riepl & co marianas trench discoveries inc
Nick Kline
Kathleen Vance
Michael Poetschko

past

Felipe Mujica: One day this will NOT be yours
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Between Mountain – part 2
Peter Feigenbaum
The Meeting
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)
Evan Robarts and James Moore: the cave
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Green Idea Pool
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Soap Box Derby
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions: Mi Tigre, My Lover
Associated
Raphaela Riepl: adorable steamed sea urchin
Allison Read Smith: Thugs
Open Source Gallery 2008-2010
Soup Kitchen 2010
Pirmin Hagen: First
Nobuko: wa
ORFI nyc: live gig 2010
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”
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
Sara Ching-Yu Sun: Nov 7th- Nov 30
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Patrick May: October 3 – november 2