This summer, the .gif file format turns 30. The ubiquitous GIF sharing platform, GIPHY, will mark the occasion by having 30 artists spiriting GIFs away from the digital world and into the physical for a gallery show in New York City called TIME_FRAME.
Presented by GIPHY and collectively curated by TRANSFER Gallery, Wallplay, and Rhizome, TIME_FRAME will display the work of 30 animation artists to showcase the past, celebrate the present, and welcome the future of the GIF.
Everybody’s favorite digital image file type (sorry, PNGs) turns 30 this year, and to mark the occasion 30 Graphics Interchange Format (or GIF) artists will show their loopy, glitchy, colorful, pixelated, and otherwise whimsical work beginning Saturday, June 17.
CVRTAIN is a virtual reality (VR) experience starring you. Placed center stage in a beautiful theater, the curtain parts to reveal an audience of thousands teaming with adulation. Do you freeze in the spotlight, or bow graciously? Every action produces a different reaction in your audience: thunderous applause, feet stomping, cameras flashing, maybe even booing. An entire audience’s emotions are at your virtual command, but only until the curtain closes.
Glowing disembodied hands float in front of me. Stardust magically trails as they fly through the air. Suddenly, a giant red curtain parts the proscenium and reveals a sea of silhouettes all cheering for me. As I bow and gesture, the glowing hands mimic my moves. The audience heaps more adulation. The curtain closes, and I feel a hand on my shoulder.
Emmy award-winning experiential director Yehuda Duenyas of m ss ng p eces was commissioned by Performance Space 122 (PS122) to create VR experience CVRTAIN for PS122’s Coil 2017 festival, which articulates the vitality of live performance in New York City. Slated to run January 3-15 at 151 Gallery in New York, the five-minute experience places the viewer onstage in the midst of a curtain call, in front of an adoring audience that reacts based on the viewer’s gestures and actions.
“The color is natural in me,” Hector explained when I spoke to him a week after his opening at the Bryant Toth Fine Art show at Gallery 151 in Chelsea. Part of an exhibition that stemmed from the American Bryant’s love for Cuba and Cuban artists, whose work has been so difficult to traverse US borders for so long, Hector’s work reveals a compassion for the people of his country and their indomitable collective spirit, one that he certainly shares.
By far, my favorite artist in Havana. I have known and worked with Hector for over eight years and his work captures the purest form of creativity in Cuba. He received the highest governmental degree as an electrical engineer before pursuing his passion for art. Now one of Cuba’ leading contemporary artists, exhibiting in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Paris, Hector Frank’s home is a stunning studio and gallery space that he built and designed himself
HECTOR FRANK – Bridge to Cuba, is Mr. Frank’s second solo exhibition in Manhattan New York. Following a year of notable success, global exposure, and a nearly sold out exhibition in 2015, we’re honored to share a new collection of his recent work.
Gallery 151 and Wallplay present Natalie White: EXPOSED, an exhibition consisting of a series of large scale polaroid self-portraits alongside a set of embroidered canvases inspired by the Gadsden flag that read “Don’t Tread on Me.”