Gallery 151 Annex at HGU NEW YORK | 34 East 32nd Street New York City
New York, NY (January 11, 2020) – Keyes Art in collaboration with the Bert Stern Trust and the HGU New York Hotel is excited to announce the release of new limited edition prints from The Last Sitting with Marilyn Monroe. The Valentine’s Day photographic show features the iconic imagery of Bert Stern’s renowned final photoshoot, of Marilyn Monroe. Photographic artworks will feature sepia toned prints along with black & white hauntingly beautiful images with streaks of themes in red. The works all sourced from the personal archives of Bert Sterns’ Marilyn Monroe, The Last Sitting® series will be available in never before larger than life sized editions.
Curated by Shannah Laumeister Stern.
Gallery 151 is made possible by the generous support of Alfa Development & Michael Namer.
Ashley G Garner Not Impossible Labs CB I Hate Perfume Aluria Nicole Absher of e_p_h_e_m_e_r_a Methods and Madness
Opening November 8th, 6-9pm
Tuesday-Saturday 12pm-6pm
Gallery 151 Annex- 361 Canal Street
Aesthesia is a multi-sensory experience inspired by six plants that have been historically used for their therapeutic properties. The exhibition provides stimuli for sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Visitors are first greeted by a tree-like structure at the front of the exhibition. A soundtrack, created by ALURIA in collaboration with Ashley G Garner’s project includes measured wavelengths taken from the actual live-recording of each chosen plant. Not Impossible Labs generously provides the ability for visitors to wear haptic suits, allowing them to feel the vibration of the audio. Methods and Madness will provide edible candy with each plant as an ingredient. CBIHatePerfume, just after exhibiting at the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has joined Garner to provide unique scents made distinctly for Aesthesia.
Gallery 151 is made possible by the generous support of Alfa Development & Michael Namer.
Gallery 151 Annex at 361 Canal Street is part of ON CANAL. Visit oncanal.nyc for more information.
Works by Daniel Sutherland Curated by D2D/T and Wallplay July 5th-August 11th
Opening July 5th 6-9pm
Monday-Saturday 11am-6pm
Gallery 151, 245 West 14th St, NY, NY 10011
GALLERY 151 is pleased to present (recurrence) horizon; a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the Nantucket seascape through the lens of photographer, Daniel Sutherland and his recent collaboration with Abdul Latif for the Ashley Bouder Project. The exhibition, curated by D2D/T and Regina Harsanyi, predominantly features monumental archival photographs printed on Hahnemühle paper, taken between 2008 and 2017. A draped dye-sublimation print on fabric featuring the Nantucket landscape is installed at the center of the gallery, surrounded on all sides by soft, painterly visions of the shoreline, seemingly in the vein of not only Le Grey’s analogue revisions of the Mediterranean or Sugimoto capturing the Baltic Sea but with the chromatic subtlety of Ad Reinhardt’s canvas. With a majority of work featured reaching over three feet in length and five feet in height, Sutherland’s photographs command the 4,000 square foot gallery space, reeling viewers directly into each luminous image. In conjunction with the exhibition, from July 2nd until July 5th Sutherland’s photographs will be featured in the newest Ashley Bouder Project production, only a few blocks from the gallery at the Joyce Theatre. A piece authored by choreographer, Abdul Latif of D2D/T will celebrate Sutherland’s work through digital projection and costume, exploring feminine strength through nature. Two of these dresses, created by the talented designers, Luis Padilla and Ana Caprio will be printed with Sutherland’s images of the Nantucket coast and displayed in the gallery among Sutherland’s photographs. While dancers wear these dresses, they harness the power to transport viewers back into the natural landscape of the island, translating movements of the sea into anthropomorphic motion.
(recurrence) horizon introduces the Manhattan populous to a rigorous, concentrated window into the vitality of Nantucket. Sutherland has called Nantucket home for over 25 years, capturing its essence initially in film. In the mid-2000s, Sutherland began experimenting extensively with digital medium format hasselblads, both inland and on the coast. While Sutherland’s signature style developed, the artist created three unique digital bodies of work: (continuous) gesture, (i thought) the sea, and (regarding) the land. (recurrence) horizon displays a distilled collection of photographs from each series, occurring over the last decade. A wide selection of the photographs chosen illustrate Sutherland’s recent, diligent experiments with lengthy exposure, often from the perspective of peering out at the horizon line over varying temperaments of the water below. The melding of clouds and sea over a calculated duration produce an illusion of movement; revealing each second of cascading waves, captured in the stillness of one frame. The reanimated life force of these stilled activities is truly embodied and fully realized in the gesture of dance at Joyce Theatre. The presence of fabric in the gallery space, once again subduing its dynamism through the draping of each costume onto static fiberglass figures, is merely capable of hinting at the gyrating vitality achieved through human form alone.
About Daniel Sutherland Daniel Sutherland is an established fine art photographer working in the landscape tradition. Living on Nantucket for the past 25 years. Working with medium and large format cameras has facilitated thoughtful engagement with an ever-changing landscape sculpted by the sea and salt-laden winds, unimpeded by topographical elevation. Sutherland delights in the playful boundary between representation and abstraction, often revealing distilled references in otherwise representational forms though reduction and simplification of elements found in the environment. As a beneficiary of Nantucket’s exemplary tradition of conservation, Sutherland has forged a long-standing relationship with the Nantucket Conservation Foundation; the island’s largest conservation organization. His work has found its way into many collections across the United States and Europe.
About D2D/T
D² Dance/Theater, an Urban-Contemporary Artists and Project Mgmt. Co. with a fusion of Multimedia Arts, Contemporary Dance and an emphasis of Urban sensibility. Dance is for everyone and is born out of everyday life. D2D/T’s movement ideology is an intersection of where the street and studio meet and is an amalgamation of soundscapes of life and the rhythms steeped in daily movement. It is the synergistic impact of the life on the stage and delivered from the spirit of those who came before.
About Regina Harsanyi
Harsanyi has been working in a curatorial capacity since 2013, beginning with assistance at the Godwin Ternbach Museum in Queens, New York. She continued curatorial training through her master’s degree from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she was chosen as one of only eight PhD and MA candidates for the 2016-2017 Curatorial Collaborative season. Harsanyi is primarily interested in showcasing topics of time-based media from historical, archival, and technical perspectives. She remains focused on the technical and operational aspects of time-based media artwork, including documentation and preservation, from plastics to software. No stranger to photography, Harsanyi previously interned at the leading photography gallery, Pace/MacGill and gaining years of experience with both unframed and glazed photographs and prints in the operations department at Sotheby’s. As Director of New Media at Wallplay, Harsanyi continues to manage artist relations and assists with curatorial efforts for clients and the company at large. Gallery 151 is made possible by the generous support of Alfa Development & Michael Namer.
Gallery 151 & Wallplay Present Natalie White: Transmissions From Space
Curated by John Reuter and Wallplay Opening May 10th 6-9pm Monday-Saturday 11am-6pm Gallery 151, 245 West 14th St, NY, NY 10011
GALLERY 151 is pleased to present Natalie White: Transmissions From Space, an exhibition curated by John Reuter & Wallplay. The exhibition features White’s newest 20×24” Polaroids and image transfers. Transmissions From Space is a focused showcase of both endangered large-format Polaroids and Polaroid transfers to watercolor paper, a new experiment for White in her creative practice.
The 20×24” Polaroid camera entered the market almost 40 years ago, with only three remaining in use today. The continuation of this process is in dire straits. Polaroid no longer produces rolls of photo paper or chemicals for the format, making the remaining inventory scarce and creeping each day towards obsolescence. The results of this process, utilizing decade-old chemicals and supports, is all the more marvelous when observing their richness in tone and pigment.
White is known for creating often politically charged photographs, prints, fabrics, performances, and videos in the name of equal rights for women using her own image. In Transmissions From Space, White has chosen to primarily feature her face and hands, bathed in polychrome lighting, while often superimposed and double exposed with celestial imagery. The image transfer process often leaves behind horizontal bands, reminiscent of television signals. As these bands intermingle with astral forms, they appear as if White herself in the stillness is transmitted from space; beyond Earthly notions of temporality or even the confines of gallery walls.
About Natalie White
White is a provocative and progressive feminist artist best known for her self-portraiture work in with large format Polaroid. Growing up in a small town in West Virginia, Natalie first gained attention internationally as a young model, featured on the covers of numerous European magazines. Never one to shy away from the risque, she was also notably the first American ever featured in French Playboy. Her creative drive and unapologetic spirit quickly led her towards more collaborative ventures with artists such as Peter Beard, George Condo, Olivier Zahm, Michael Dweck, Will Cotton, Spencer Tunick, and Sean Lennon. White has been working in large format Polaroid for years and has had her photographs included in more than seven exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.
About John Reuter
Reuter has been a photographer since the early ‘70s, He received a BFA from SUNY Geneseo and an MFA/MA from the University of Iowa. Reuter specialized in Polaroid materials, most notably SX-70 constructions, combining photography with painting and collage. Reuter joined Polaroid Corp in 1978 as senior photographer and later Director of the legendary 20×24 Studio. His own work evolved through large scale Polacolor image transfers to digital imaging in the mid ‘90s. Reuter has recently moved into video and filmmaking and is currently working on a feature length documentary titled Camera Ready: The Polaroid 20×24 Project. For over ten years, Reuter has lent his 20×24 Polaroid camera to White.
About Wallplay Wallplay is an experiential arts and innovation platform that programs empty storefronts, founded in 2013 by Laura O’Reilly & Alessandra DeBenedetti. Wallplay facilitates mixed reality collaborations where artists can connect with new technologies to scale their practice and work into spaces with brands as patrons of culture. Wallplay is a member of the the New Museum’s creative technology incubator NEW INC., which is dedicated to supporting innovative entrepreneurship across art, design, and technology. Over the past five years Wallplay’s out-of-home experiential projects have reached over 100 million people. www.wallplay.com
Gallery 151 is made possible by the generous support of Alfa Development & Michael Namer.
Alfa Development’s latest addition to its Green Collection of sustainable properties targeting LEED Gold Certification, 200 E 21 Gramercy, will be hosting an exhibition and series of events to celebrate Earth Day 2018. The events will center around a month-long interactive exhibition OSMUNDA installed at Gallery 151, a gallery founded by Alfa’s CEO Michael Namer 10 years ago.
Featuring: Ag Tech X, Alessia Reggiani, Alex Allaux, Ambrosia Elixirs, Angela Del Sol, Aquatorium, being((:))sound, Bio:Glitz, Clear Studios, David Block, Desdemona Dallas, Evan Yee Studio, Funguyzz, Georgia Marcantoni, Hanoux, Horti, Lloyd Stevie, Madeline Lynch, Manuel, Max Smith, Plant in City: Huy Bui, Pooya Hosseini, Rhizome NYC, Sasha Charoensub. Scott Goodman, AESOP, The Art Rising, Tyler Goldflower, and more…
Organized by the non-profit production team Future Clear, the social impact film organization Redefined Films, and Solare Creative, Osmunda is a three-week experiential lab, exposition, andartist residency focused on reconnecting the thread between humanity and nature. Osmunda is inspired by the dream of native royal ferns growing through the cracks of the city streets. By showcasing biophilic art, technology, workshops, and grassroots projects, the exhibition aims to encourage New Yorkers to adopt sustainable practices. Installations include over twenty emerging artists, who have come together to create an immersive space for cross-pollinated learning, reminding humans that they too are nature.
Osmunda is primarily focused on learning by experience, which will be demonstrated through eco-design thinking workshops. Experts, who have been serving New York City ecology in their respective fields, will share their work in conjunction with the major challenges they are facing. After the opening, participants will engage in the design thinking process with guidance from Osmunda facilitators. Throughout the exhibition, twelve handpicked residents will also interact with visitors to share their process in using media, sound, sustainable fashion, and education to better their ecosystems
April 20th: Creativity in Action by Solare Creative
Apri 22nd: Osmunda Earth Day Activation
April 24th: Food Justice and Urban Farm Workshop
April 25th: Future of Urban Agriculture Workshop
April 26th: Eco Fashion Show
April 27th: Reducing Plastic, Reusing Waste Workshop
April 28th: Forage Workshop and Potluck
April 30th: Growth Learning Workshop
May 1st: Cleaning our Waterways Workshop
May 3rd: Bridge Event with Joro Boro
May 6th: Catskill Animal Sanctuary Talk
For more information on events throughout the festival, please visit www.osmunda.org.
About the Organizers
Luke Namer is the founder of Redefined Films and an award-winning documentarian. Born and raised in New York City, Namer was inspired by the book Mannahatta by Eric Sanderson, which illuminated the thread between modern New York society and its history as an immensely biodiverse area. With Osmunda, Namer aims to prompt large communities of New Yorkers to spark deeper connections between themselves and the natural world and to engage visitors in sustainable practices for their own lives and neighborhoods.
Clear Studios is a holistic architectural design studio committed to creating dynamic, sustainable spaces. Inspired by a collective exploration through Peru, Clear Studios aims to honor the earth through consciously integrating nature and technology into architecture. With Osmunda, Clear Studios creates an immersive, interactive environment to illuminate an embodied understanding that we (the people and the city of New York) are not separate from nature, we are nature.
Wallplay is pleased to present Flying Machine, the highly anticipated debut solo exhibition of artist, Colm Dillane at Gallery 151. Centered around Dillane’s striking large scale oil paintings,Flying Machine is a metaphor for Dillane’s evolution. The artist was discovered by curator Laura O’Reilly, who was inspired by his work ethic and constant output of art through his brand, KidSuper. After witnessing firsthand the superhuman challenges Dillane would overcome to complete billboard murals, lookbooks, short films, clay animations, music videos, and custom art projects, O’Reilly believed that his spirit and artistry should be experienced in a gallery setting. Dillane’s relentless commitment to expanding his creative processfuels his prolific explorations in all forms of media. This first series of oil paintings marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in Dillane’s practice.
Dillane’s paintings show a strong post-impressionist influence. The artist appears to align his aesthetic with late 19th century masters, in particular stylistically conjuring the spirit of both Toulouse Lautrec and James Ensor. In this, his works articulate an innate desire to belong within the lineage of Western art history. Although Lautrec and Ensor were not involved in the same circles, they have commonalities with Dillane’s own work, resonating beyond the surface. Lautrec is known primarily for painting sordid nightclub life in Paris. Ensor was captivated by the Ostend Carnivals, depicted in many of his works. Dillane’s works depict Carnival-esque, bohemian characters, which he brings together in his paintings, the same way he does in real life with KidSuper Studios. People are paramount to his compositions; the gaze of his characters engage the viewer in unspoken conversation.
The exhibition features multiple dimensions of Dillane’s creative practice. The oil paintings in Flying Machine are accompanied by works on paper, sculptures adorning Colm’s fashion line, KidSuper couture, and Beheld’s 3D photo booth. Dillane is a modern Renaissance man whose uncanny ability to capture the essence of being human adds a genuine energy to his practice. Aiming to resonate with the viewer in a unique way, Flying Machine gives gallery goers the opportunity to become part of the exhibition. After being 3D scanned, guests can receive looped videos of themselves flying through the artist’s painted environments.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machine never came to fruition in his lifetime but he remains to be celebrated for expressing the mere potential and imagination of the idea. The concept of failure is embraced by Colm; he views it is a natural part of the creative process. What matters most to him is that he is constantly challenged and pushing his imagination to new limits. Like the Wright brothers, who had a child like faith in their ability to fly against all odds, with absolute belief and perseverance, Dillane will take flight no matter how many times he may fall. These explorations may very well become the desired early works of a celebrated artist.
About Colm Dillane & KidSuper
Colm Dillane was born in New York City in 1991. He is the multimedia artist & entertainer behind KidSuper, a hybrid art brand with a storefront and studio in Williamsburg. Dillane graduated with a degree in Mathematics from New York University and played professional soccer in Brazil for a year between highschool and college. A wide range of life experience fueled Colm’s super hero imagination & need to create his own world through art & design. KidSuper’s mission is to remind people that anything is possible. His work has been worn by and endorsed by some of the top musicians and creatives of today. www.kidsuper.com | @kidsuper
About Laura O’Reilly & Wallplay
O’Reilly is the founder of Wallplay, the experiential arts & innovation network, stationed at the New Museum’s creative technology incubator, NEW INC. Laura’s career in the artworld began when she was a teenager at Deitch Projects in 2007. She went on to become the Associate Director at The Hole during its first year on the Bowery & has been working with Gallery 151 as its director and guest curator for over a decade. Wallplay manages the programming at Gallery 151, which is made possible by the generous patronage of Michael Namer & Alfa Development. www.wallplay.com | @wallplayground
About Beheld
Beheld is building the photo booth of the future. This fun and exciting new experience uses 3D scanning technology and advanced software to launch visitors into the digital dimension. In an instant, a customizable 3D avatar of yourself will be created and ready for sharing on social media. You can take one step further and 3D print a miniature version of yourself or your friends in full color. Founded in New York in 2017, Beheld has plans to expand their offering to events and venues all across America and Europe. https://beheld3d.com/ | @beheld3D
Celebration of the founding of the Wooster 151 Wild Style Wall & Gallery 151
Featuring Works by: Fab 5 Freddy, Robert Weingarten, Bobby Grossman, ERO and LA2
Open to The Public:
11-6pm Tuesday – Saturday Through January 31st.
Gallery 151 | 245 West 14th Street New York City
On December 13th, 2007 Gallery 151’s premiere exhibition, The Wild Style Exhibit, premiered to the public a collaborative wall of historical graffiti, discovered during the renovation of 151 Wooster Street in Soho. Matthew Namer, the son of the downtown developer Michael Namer, discovered the wall at the same time that renovations were planned to be made to the building. 151 Wooster Street became the first iteration of Gallery 151, which would subsequently call locations throughout downtown Manhattan home in the years to come while hosting over sixty exhibitions. Now, Gallery 151 celebrates DECADE, its 10th anniversary exhibition, at its current location, 245 West 14th Street in Downtown Manhattan.
For the 10th Anniversary exhibition, sections of the Gallery 151 Wild Style Wall will be available for public viewing alongside select historical photographs captured by Bobby Grossman of the Graffiti scene in the early 1980s and photographs from the 2007 discovery of the Gallery 151 Wild Style Wall by Robert Weingarten. DECADE will also feature recent works on canvas by Fab 5 Freddy and selections from the collection of Michael Namer, including ERO and LA2. Visitors will be able to interact with the Gallery 151 Wild Style Wall through an augmented reality experience using Blippar technology, enabling viewers to see missing pieces of the wall directly in conversation with the successfully migrated tags for the very first time. The opening will also include an interactive touch-screen projection, allowing guests to virtually author their own tags. This interactive and augmented reality experience is produced by Wallplay.
Edit DeAk, a resident on the eighth floor of 151 Wooster until 1984, allowed young artists in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s tag a wall in her loft with spray paint, grease pencil, and marker. Many of these artists have gained canonical notoriety in the fine arts, including but not limited to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Francesco Clemente, Futura 2000, ERO, Nesto, Koor, and Johnny Dynell. DeAk’s graffiti wall was hidden beneath gypsum board for over 30 years, finally uncovered during the building’s conversion in 2007.
Renovations to the building were quickly halted upon the discovery, allowing the Namer family to prioritize migrating the wall, helping to preserve and display the graffiti time capsule to a wider audience. Since the wall’s discovery, Gallery 151 has supported emerging New York-based artists and provided a platform for their talent to be recognized by the public, expanding its vernacular to include issues of sustainability and environmental responsibility.
GALLERY 151 is pleased to present Paradise City, an exhibition featuring John Grande’s newest series of paintings, inspired by the organic compositions created from decaying advertisements lining the New York City streets. John Grande became fascinated with what he refers to as “the city’s modern day cave paintings” in 2016 and has dedicated his creative practice to bringing these compositions to life. The dialogue created by both residual deterioration and blanketed layers, left behind by years of placing and tearing down wheatpaste posters and stapled flyers against construction dividers, results in its own language, unique to the the constant turnaround in New York City.
Gallery 151 will showcase Grande’s paintings in enamel, oil, industrial, and spray paint to illustrate a unique, photorealistic perspective on urban landscapes in the current period of both industrial and multimedia abundance. Additionally, Paradise City will capture these insights not only in pigment but with found objects from the landscape itself. In October, Paradise City will feature an ongoing evolving augmented reality (AR) experience created by Wallplay, utilizing Blippar’s technology to transform the gallery walls into the construction dividers where the paintings were originally discovered. Gallery goers will encounter the layered advertisements that influenced Grande’s paintings in three dimensions.
In the overwhelming, distracting environment created by growth in technology and saturation of marketing, many ignore their surroundings while walking through the city streets. In Paradise City, John Grande exhibits the messages of the metropolis, hidden in plain sight, through the lens of his paint brush. He gives a platform to these overlooked narratives by exposing the compositional quality of worn urban advertisements layering the city’s capitalist canvas. By capturing transient moments, Grande’s works explore the language advertisements have with one another and give context to their time.
Gallery 151 is made possible by the generous support of Alfa Development & Michael Namer.
ABOUT JOHN GRANDE:
John Grande (b.1969, New York) received his BFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Grande is most interested in the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of popular and contemporary culture in a multimedia world. Grande often includes hyperreal representations of people, luxury brands, and advertisements as a type of symbolic iconography, illustrating wider musings about culture today. Grande’s work has been shown and collected worldwide, from India to Switzerland, Mexico to Korea, and all over the United States.
“The vastness of the universe and everything within it can be simplified as the output of energy by unique vibrational frequencies. Using techniques, such as brainwave entrainment, which ‘tunes’ the brain to a specific frequency, it is theoretically possible to influence different states of consciousness.” – Ashley G. Garner
GALLERY 151 is pleased to present SYNÆSTHESIA, a multi-sensory installation by New York-based photographer and filmmaker, Ashley G. Garner in collaboration with Wallplay.
The synesthesia phenomenon is traditionally thought to be a synaptic overlapping of senses, such as hearing color or associating sound with scent. In a six-part video series, featuring audio compositions by ALURIA, Garner synthesizes colorful dye with symbolic flora to recreate this perceptual experience for her viewers. Solfeggio frequencies, an ancient six-tone musical scale speculated to have healing properties, are explored physically within the space.
Wallplay has created multi-sensory meditation stations for each of the six videos and audio compositions. Each video station features a still image and live flowers, paired with an essential oil blend and colored light that connects with a corresponding chakra. Participants are seated on meditation cushions and immersed in a symphony for the senses. The stations create a multi-dimensional path for participants to journey through Garner’s work.
Together we explore our inner world and play with different states of consciousness while traveling through each tone in the Solfeggio scale. Wallplay’s installation design connects ALURIA’s healing Solfeggio compositions as a singular chorus, which can be experienced individually or fully when standing at the center of the gallery.
Exhibiting SYNÆSTHESIA in physical spaces will be an ongoing collaboration between Ashley G. Garner and Wallplay. Over the next year, the series will evolve and be scaled through collaborations with technology and wellness partners to reach a wide audience in mixed reality settings.
PROGRAMMING:
Wellness Events will be hosted at Gallery 151 throughout the duration of SYNÆSTHESIA
ABOUT ASHLEY G. GARNER:
Garner’s conceptual work is a balance between structured forms and poetic rebellion, dancing among conversations stretching from the social to the metaphysical world. While growing up in the foothills of North Carolina, an adoration with fantasy and the sublime were bred. Themes of duality, mythology, and transcendental symbolism tie her wide variety of subjects together. Often collaborating with sound engineers, figure models, dancers, florists, and body painters, her work aims to bridge the fine art market, high luxury, and editorial.
ABOUT ALURIA:
Juan Correa Lopez is ALURIA. His musical practice blends electronic soul, progressive ambiance, and techno elements. Family, friends, nature, sound, poetry, photography, and artist collaborations all aid in developing expressive structures and landscapes. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Lopez focuses on evolving his Argentinian roots and futuristic sound design to deliver ambiance at a binaural state.
Co-curated by Giphy Arts, Wallplay, Rhizome, and Transfer Gallery
Open to The Public:
1-9pm Saturday June 17 through Wednesday June 21st
1-6pm Thursday June 22nd
Gallery 151 | 245 West 14th Street New York City
“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.” – HYPERALLERGIC
TIME_FRAME is a week-long gallery exhibition exploring the history of art online, and celebrating the power of the GIF as an artistic format that will guide us into the future of visual culture. Featuring works by over 30 artists, the exhibition includes interactive installations, VR experiments, artist talks and workshops.
FEATURING A. Bill Miller, Aaron Bjork, Alan Resnick, Anthony Antonellis, Carla Gannis, Clara Terne, Domitille Collardey-Adebimpe, Evan Yee, Faith Holland, Josh Freydkis, Justin Brandon, Kinard KANS, Lorna Mills, Matias Trillo, Mouchette, MSHR, Natalie James, Nicky Rojo, Nitemind by Michael Potvin and Raj Medhekar, Olia Lialina & Mike Tyka, Parker Jackson, Patrick Sluiter, Peter Burr, Robert Beatty, Rollin Leonard, Sam Lyon, Toyoya Li, Withering Systems, Xaviera López, and Yoshi Sodeoka
PROGRAMMING:
THE STATE OF THE GIF Presented by RHIZOME
Saturday June 17th 3-4PM
A panel discussion exploring the past, present, and future of the GIF. Featuring Marisa Olson (artist/curator), Faith Holland (artist), and Molly Soda (artist), moderated by Zachary Kaplan (Rhizome)
Live Music by Moon Bounce
Saturday June 17th 7-8:30PM
Mutant Pop from Philadelphia
Radical Digital Painting Presented by JAS
Sunday, June 18th 3 – 4pm
Artist and programmer Jeffrey Alan Scudder (JAS) lectures on digital painting and performs with a variety of his home-grown software instruments for making unique pictures and sounds
VR Show & Tell Presented by Superbright + Ooni + Rhizome
Sunday, June 18th 6 – 9pm
Demo an array of VR experiences exploring the evolving intersection of art, animation and VR headsets
Inside the Heads of GNOG Presented by Game Designer Samuel Boucher of KO_OP
Monday, June 19th 7 – 9pm
Learn about the delightful puzzle game GNOG with a guided play-through and artist talk from the award-winning designer
An Explorer’s Guide to Internet Archaeology Presented by Atlas Obscura
Tuesday, June 20th 7 – 9pm
FRAME BY FRAME Presented by Wallplay
Wednesday, June 21st 3 – 5pm
An interactive workshop on how to transform your art into GIFs. Featuring live demos with Wallplay artists & audience participants
GIFS used with permission by Walter Wlodarczyk for GIPHY.
