Images NYC
August 19th – August 30th
Opening August 21st, 7-10pm
Opening Hours: Fri and Sat 2-6pm, Sun: 4-6pm
Curated by 17 year old Malissa Williams, (who also participates in the exhibition), this depiction of New York City is based on the views of four unique young female artists. Hailing from various parts of the world, and in different states of young adulthood, these young women offer their varying drawing styles to create a prism projecting nascent hopes and desires and a picture of the New York of tomorrow.
Curator’s Statement:
Participating artists Jen Kaplan, Anna Mytko, Kseniya Kapitka, and I, depict New York City based on our particular and personal views. We are of different ages, come from various cultures, and live in disparate parts of the country. These distinctions and our divergent experiences determine our views of NYC. Anna, originally from Belarus, is currently a Sophmore at Kent State University in Ohio. Jen Kaplan is moving to NYC from Cleveland to attend college, (she plans to live in New York for the rest of her life). Kseniya and I are Juniors at LaGuardia High School in New York City. Because the two of us are native New Yorkers, we offer an inside perspective about neighborhoods and places that are off the beaten path. We hope that by giving you views from different angles and unique personalities, we present a colorful portrait of the city we love.
– Malissa Williams
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
Soap box Derby: August 7th, 2010
Kids: 12 Noon, Adults: 1 pm
17th Street between 5th and 6th Ave, South Slope
Everybody is welcome to participate!
Summer Camp for kids age 7-12
You can always stop by and get some ideas between 9-12am. That is when the Open Source Summer Camp is happening. Children aged 7-12 are learning to construct functional soap box racers out of recycled material. The artists Hubert Dobler and Monika Wuhrer are conducting the workshop following last year’s rave reviews: [Daily News (2-page spread!!!), Popular Mechanics, Park Slope Courier, Brooklyn Paper, among others].
We will introduce the campers to a variety of tools and supervise them closely while they build their contraptions with hammers, nails, handsaws, screws, etc. ALL TOOL USE UNDER STRICT ADULT SUPERVISION. We will encourage the kids to plan on paper, sketch images, make drawings of their invention, and think out of the box. We will also spend time outside, collecting found objects and materials, and testing our designs at each stage. We will also take breaks to play ball and have free play at the park/playground: (the time spent will depend on the different kids and their needs).
We have access to an outdoor space with a slight incline one half block away that we will be using in addition to the Gallery. This will serve as the perfect test track for our soap boxes in their different building stages. The culmination of the camp will be the 2nd annual 17th street soap box derby.
All participants, families, and friends are welcome to be part of the derby on August 7th.
Many thanks to William Duke for the video!
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source’s Windmill Camp’s field trip to Starting Artists
Summer Camp for kids age 10-14
July 6th through July 16th
Keen on the need for green, and inspired by stories like the tale of young William Kamkwamba in “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” (written with Bryan Mealer), Monika Wuhrer and Hubert Dobler will host a quixotic 2-week workshop with the purpose of building one big windmill. The windmill will be constructed out of found material. We will go to local hardware stores to purchase additional material, but we do encourage all campers to look for materials at home and on the streets. Our hope is to generate enough power to run TV’s / radios / small appliances. Who knows, we might even be able to power a simple videogame! We will be using tools like electric drills, saws, hammers etc. All tool use will be under strict adult supervison. Space is very limited, we will only be able to host 6 kids.
Daily 9am -3pm
please email us for more information.
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch at work
June 3rd – July 1st
Opening/Closing: Sunday June 27th 2010, 7-10pm
During the show they will use the gallery most of the day. If you would like to make an appointment to see it contact:
Severin Hagen: severin.hagen [at] gmail.com or Sebastian Koch: kochsebastian [at] gmx.net
This June, OPEN SOURCE GALLERY will inaugurate its annual residency with emerging Austrian Artists. This year we chose the young austrian talents Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch.
The Artists will work over the duration of one month in the gallery, in plain view of the public. Open Source Gallery is a small storefront space with a prominent street presence. The idea being that neighbors and pedestrians will have ample opportunity to interact with the artists in the process of the making of the work. This will help to inform the exhibition at the end of the month. Subsequently, we will have a formal opening/closing on friday, June 27th, 7-10pm to present the finished work to the public. They will also host the cHURCH OF MONIKA, every Sunday 11am, to discribe their process while connecting to the community, but feel free to stop by any day.
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
May 7th – June 2nd, 2010
Opening: May 8th, 7pm-10pm
“FATE” 35″ x 24″ oil on canvas, 2010
The tradition of portraiture is 3000 years old. The historical recording of our likenesses includes the ubiquity of photography. From celebrities to our sons and daughters, we are “on the record.” What do we look like? Who are we and what does our presence signify in the world at this moment? Patricia Watwood takes the long view. Rendered in oil, these are considered, toiled over, and invested with the kind of perspective that photography sometimes renders with cold precision. These paintings invite you to consider who we are, and what our experience here means. Rather than speaking to a moment, they ask you to spend time and relish our common humanity.
Patricia Watwood has studied painting at the Water Street Atelier, under Jacob Collins, and also under Ted Seth Jacobs at Ecole Albert Defois. She earned her MFA with honors from New York Academy of Art. Watwood did her undergraduate studies in Theatre Design, and has worked in scenic design and painting in regional theatres.
Watwood has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Paris, Houston, San Francisco and Long Island. Her work is represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. Her figurative paintings have been included in several museum shows, including “Slow Painting,” at the Oglethorpe Museum; “The Great American Nude;” at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences; and in “Representing Representation VI,” at the Arnot Museum.
http://www.patriciawatwood.com
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.
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
March 13th -April 6th
Opening: March 20th: 7-10pm
Ondrej Brody (CZ) & Kristofer Paetau’s (FIN) recent work: ‘Painting China Now’ (2007), is a collection of 30 oil paintings depicting instances of violence inflicted by the Chinese government upon their own citizens (Falun Dafa members). They were rendered with impeccable realism by Chinese craftsmen specialized in copying any picture you send them via e-mail. The series, censored and forbidden images at home, were executed in China and then exported to Europe for display.
In their new work: ‘Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality,’ the artists chose an extremely explicit photograph focusing on the massacred torso of a torture victim. Although the original photograph is unsharp, there is no doubt about what it is depicting. Using the Chinese painting companies’ own product quality grade system, Brody & Paetau commisioned the image to be painted in all three grades: Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality.
What at the first glance appears as cynical artistic exploitation can also be seen as a shock of realities revealed through a conceptual artistic process. On one hand, there is an oppressive political power exercising torture and censorship upon their citizens, on the other, western entities eager to profit from the cheap production forces and ruthless commercialism China offers.
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
Feb. 16th – Mar. 6th
Opening Reception: Feb. 20th, 7-10pm
left: “Empty Attention” I, tape, light and paint on wood, 96x 36x 36″
right: “New Ruin”, photograph, 25 x 14 x 2″
Due to the mortgage crisis of 2007, there is a preponderance of buildings whose construction has been indefinitely halted. Inspired by these ghostly structures, Ina has created an installation at OPEN SOURCE GALLERY that communicates his admiration for the strange beauty and evanescent nature of this unfolding process. These works utilize elements such as safety net coverings and lighted panels to recreate the fleeting clarity of these abandoned “monuments”.
*Three dimension works will be exhibited along with documentary
photographs taken from 2008 to the present.
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Extended to Feb 7th 2010
In a group of new work situated between painting and sculpture entitled: “Fairlane Marauder” the artist John Coburn has produced a series of curiously shaped panel pieces the tones and finish of which resemble mass produced objects. The design language of things as diverse as automobiles, weaponry, electric guitars and heraldic shields is evoked in these works which reflect the playful menace of a culture that has imbued the objects of its daily peacetime consumption with a marshal spirit. John Coburn who keeps a studio in Jersey City has lived and worked in New York City for the past 15 years. He received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and before that a BFA from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. This is the artist’s second solo show in New York. Further information concerning the artist can be obtained at johncoburn.com.
The force of habit has a heavy hand in the making of things. Vestiges of a previous practice may persist despite its obsolescence. Hence when carriage makers turned to making automobiles, carriage forms were carried over which no longer served a purpose, but which nonetheless seemed necessary symbolically. Something similar occurred after World War II when Detroit retooled for peacetime. The powerful steel shapes crafted in the production of bombers, tanks and fighter planes found their way into fenders, Dagmars (artillery shaped bumpers) and the grille work of newly designed automobiles. By the 1960s and early 1970s these forms remained a latent specter which undergirded the formal and symbolic language of car design (much like the Military Industrial Complex had become a permanent feature of the American economy). There was a conflict though between these vestigial images and the new suburban idyll the automobile had spawned; one was martial, the other domestic.
The title for this series of works refers to that hybrid of contradictory symbols using a couple of the evocative names given to cars at that time. But the origin of some of the formal content is of a more personal sort as well: that I associate my first strong aesthetic experience while growing up with my father’s ’67 Dodge Coronet Station Wagon. Shiny black, it had a red vinyl interior and a wide, flat hood that seemed to lock every turn in sights. The reach of its sinewy fender had a slight planar lift as it passed the backseat passenger door. And the impressive presence of this family car coincided with my earliest art-making activity.
These works also incorporate procedures from decorative and sign painting. They evoke the language of the blazon, those heraldic images which signal rank and belonging in a group or participation in great events and command positions in rooms beyond the eye-level read of conventional pictures. Others reference the shapes, finish and styling of electric guitars with their unusual pick guard forms – and hang aloft as well, to be ogled in guitar stores or themed burger joints. Finally, this work may also be seen against a backdrop of Modernist art, such a Jean Arp’s evocative yet abstract wooden silhouette pieces and the cubist collage of Braque and Picasso, which employed the faux-bois techniques of the decorator, as well as some early modern American Art, specifically that of Stuart Davis with its celebration of the machine aesthetic. There is a thread connecting these diverse references which extends beyond my personal associations with them. It is my intention that the totality of these combine in a condition which only poetry allows; the ambiguous cohabitation of many in a singular resonance.
read the review at: museumofperipheralart
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24
Each night in December (2008 and 2009), a different person signs up to cook a meal for approximately 15 -20 people to be served between 6 and 8pm every night. Kind of like an advent calendar of food. Most of the dishes are a one-pot meal–either a soup or stew which can be served in bowls with bread on the side.
Mostly, people from the neighborhood or artist or musician friends sign up to cook, but occasionally there is the new person who sees the sign up sheet and is up for a challenge. The people who come vary from working class people to self-employed artists and occasionally a neighborhood person who is down on their luck or simply hungry.
2009 was the second year of soup kitchen. Some nights up to 50 people were standing in line for the delicious food, other nights the conversation, wine and beer kept us up until 3am in the morning. Sometimes, the chef did incorporate an artistic element to the evening, either displaying photographs on the stark, white gallery walls or reading a monologue from a play he or she has written.
Sometimes the conversation flows easily and sometimes not, but the food is nearly always tasty (it’s new York after all–we have standards!).
2009 announcement:
For the month of December Open Source Gallery is about, Cooking, Eating, Sharing, Celebrating…
Dinner is served from 6-8pm
It’s time for the 2nd annual open source soup kitchen so if you want to participate, please reserve a date. We are looking for artists, cooks, friends and neighbors to join us for SOUP KITCHEN, where for as many days as we have volunteers, we will be offering a “one-pot meal” to all on a first-come, first-served basis. Unique dishes from any ethnic tradition are more than welcome. We will provide cookware, utensils and help with logistics. We ask that you supply the love. LET’S EAT!!!
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Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O'Shea
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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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