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

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