Peter Feigenbaum

Peter Feigenbaum | Artist website

April 6th – April 12th
Opening reception: April 6th

“Expanding upon his 2010 Streetsmart project in which he photographed his photorealistic architectural sets of decaying 70s era New York buildings on the streets of Park Slope using surreal compositional juxtapositions, Peter Feigenbaum’s Streetsmart II: XRO takes the exercise one step further into surrealism and psycho-geography.

Feigenbaum has since created a portable module that allows his sets of miniature abandoned buildings to be mounted atop the roof of a car. In late 2011, he scoured the rapidly gentrifying outer reaches of Bed-Stuy and Harlem to find the city’s last remaining derelict boarded up blocks(often marked with the Fire Departments “XRO” tag, signifying “roof out”).

After double parking on busy city streets and deploying the installation on the roof of his car, Feigenbaum acted quickly and decisively to take photographs that created a strong surreal compositional dialogue between the real life abandoned buildings in the background and the miniature sets in the foreground that mimic the reality behind them. While the images have parallels to hyper-real architectural renderings, the resulting scenes suggest anti-architectural interventions and a lust for urban entropy. Thus via Feigenbaum’s photographic interventions, the city’s few remaining derelict blocks become time warps into the feral, moody, ghost-world of decaying 1970s New York City that he has been obsessed with via his work”

on view now

Trees | Press Release June 15th-July 5th 2013 Opening reception: Saturday, June 15th, 7-9pm One of the inspirations for Miller’s large-scale tree portraits was a scene he encountered while driving across the Great Plains and farmlands: a single tree in the distance. Complete in its solitude, this tree embodies the complicated notion of strength in [...]

upcoming

Soap Box 2013
Elizabeth Spavento: We Know Not Exactly Where or How
Katarina Poliacikova
Katerina Marcelja

past

Andrea Ray: Utopians Dance
Margrethe Aanestad: Herein
David D’Ostilio: The Chopping Block
Stefanie Koseff: To The Deep
Michael Poetschko: Zona
Soup Kitchen 2012
Kathleen Vance: From the Woods
Nick Kline: Gilgo Beach
Soap Box Camp and Derby 2012
Patrick Cadenhead: Spring and Renewal
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 2011
The Mobile-kitchen-table-cart on tour
riepl & co marianas trench discoveries inc
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