Monday, July 25, 2011
Dispatch from the Bohemian Sub-Economy
recess! organizers David Muenzer and Tucker Rae-Grant are still on the move; check out this article from the New York Times City Room blog about their exhibition in the Lipstick Building, 14 & 15.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Mise en place - Sowon Kwon
dongghab (jackson, mississippi),
colored pencil on paper
12 x 15 in.
2007
dongghab (hochiminhcity, vietnam),
colored pencil on paper
12 x 15 in.
2007
Mise en place - Liana Moskowitz
Marble Slide
oil on canvas
12 x 17 in
2010
untitled
arcylic, paper mache, and plaster on cardboard
24 x 3in.
2010
Mise en place - David Muenzer
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Vitamin A Viewing Station
carrot juice, plexiglass tray
60 x 14 x 3in.
2009-10
Mozart Balls
oil, spray paint, cavnas, wood
28 x 14in.
2010
imperturbable equanimity
archival inkjet print, spray paint, MDF
40 x 29 x 4in.
2010
Mise en place - Alana Fitzgerald
Come any closer and I will stab you in the heart.
acrylic oil on canvas
72 x 60in.
2010
Mise en place - unknown, Dutch
Pirated, after Crispijn van der Passe's Hortus Floridus
colophon engraving
5 x 8 in., framed
ca. 1650
Mise en place - Tucker Rae-Grant
Two rival factions crystallized following the discovery of vast diamond fields on Mars: those who favored imposing limits on the gems' terrestrial market distribution, and those who wept for the past and future of humanity.
silk, poplar, acrylic, IKEA © Pyssla, brass, grit, cotton
9 x 12in .
2010
"The early models included viewports to counteract their necessarily claustric design," she said. "Their engineers hadn't realized the effect that looking out and seeing one's reflection superimposed on the image of an exploding spaceliner would have."
Silk, poplar, mahogany, gauze, tacks, acrylic
4 x 6in.
2009
Mise en place
Tucker Rae-Grant, Eleanor Swordy, unknown Dutch, Erick Mack, Sowon Kwon, David Muenzer
Alana Fitzgerald, David Muenzer, Jeffrey Stuker, Sascha Braunig, Mary Reid Kelley, Liana Moskowitz, Tucker Rae-Grant
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Not Merely a Diced Onion
MISE EN PLACE
Recess Gallery
467 W Amsterdam Ave
(between 82nd and 83rd Streets)
Upper West Side
recessgallery@gmail.com
Subway: 1, 2, 3 to 86th, 79th Streets
Sascha Braunig, Alana Fitzgerald, Mary Reid Kelley, Sowon Kwon, Eleanor Swordy, Erick Mack, Liana Moskowitz, David Muenzer, Tucker Rae-Grant, Jeffrey Stucker and an unknown artist ca. 1650.
Opening March 6th, 6-10pm
Mise en place is not merely a diced onion, stacks of pappardelle, and a wooden spoon resting by the stove—it is also the very moment of readiness embodied by the placement of these objects.
Similarly, the works in this show resist reduction to either the material qualities that they exhibit or the subjects to which they often refer.
Although the name "still life" suggests inaction—even to that extreme end of activity, death—the paintings in this show instead take on an active task, approaching the still life as a continual process of arrangement and re-arrangement. The artists center their inquiry on textures, objects, and external references.
As simultaneously images of a subject and themselves the object of interest, the still-lifes in this show offer to their viewers the activity of this arrangement—in all its neurotic, pragmatic, and energetic forms—while remaining inextricably bound to its means.
Recess Gallery
467 W Amsterdam Ave
(between 82nd and 83rd Streets)
Upper West Side
recessgallery@gmail.com
Subway: 1, 2, 3 to 86th, 79th Streets
Sascha Braunig, Alana Fitzgerald, Mary Reid Kelley, Sowon Kwon, Eleanor Swordy, Erick Mack, Liana Moskowitz, David Muenzer, Tucker Rae-Grant, Jeffrey Stucker and an unknown artist ca. 1650.
Opening March 6th, 6-10pm
Mise en place is not merely a diced onion, stacks of pappardelle, and a wooden spoon resting by the stove—it is also the very moment of readiness embodied by the placement of these objects.
Similarly, the works in this show resist reduction to either the material qualities that they exhibit or the subjects to which they often refer.
Although the name "still life" suggests inaction—even to that extreme end of activity, death—the paintings in this show instead take on an active task, approaching the still life as a continual process of arrangement and re-arrangement. The artists center their inquiry on textures, objects, and external references.
As simultaneously images of a subject and themselves the object of interest, the still-lifes in this show offer to their viewers the activity of this arrangement—in all its neurotic, pragmatic, and energetic forms—while remaining inextricably bound to its means.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
recess! - opening
All of these photos are courtesy of the night's illustrious DJ and photographer Ted Gordon.
467 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10024
(between 82nd & 83rd)
recessgallery@gmail.com
Friday, January 8, 2010
recess! - installation views
above, from left: David Muenzer, Elise Adibi, Tucker Rae-Grant, David Muenzer
above, by Elise Adibi:
Landscape
oil on canvas
20 x 40in.
2009
Landscape on a Stool
c-print
12 x 15in. framed
2009
above, by Liana Moskowitz:
Ropes (four paintings)
cardboard, foam core, acrylic paint, rope
6 x 5 x 2ft.
2009
above, by David Muenzer:
Tulip Table (from "Coffee in the Study")
oil on canvas
40 x 12in.
2009
recess! - Hannah Burnett, Sharon Madanes
above, by Hannah Burnett:
Hole
digital video
37 sec.
2009
Push/Outie
latex, latex paint, cheesecloth
24 x 24 x 18in.
2009
November Muff
in collaboration with Sharon Madanes
synthetic fabric, polyester fiberfill
48 x 12 x 18in.
2009
The photo of the muff in action (middle) is courtesy Ted Gordon.
recess! - David Muenzer
Vitamin A Distribution Center
carrot juice, plexiglass
60 x 14 x 3in.
2009
Foam
digital video
15 sec.
2009
photos courtesy Ted Gordon
recess! - Tucker Rae-Grant
above, by Tucker Rae-Grant:
Solaris (morning)
silk, poplar, acrylic, urethane, PVA, emulsion, chalk
4 x 7in.
2009
Learning to live with what you have (Space Exploration in the 21st Century)
gingham, poplar, copper, acrylic, silica
16 x 14in.
2009
Years later, she forgot, or, What are you going to do when the money runs out?
silk, pine, copper, acrylic, urethane, pigment, polyurethane glue
4 x 6in.
2009
The traveler is struck by the unimagined vastness of the new world.
silk, canvas, poplar, acrylic, urethane, silica, glitter, steel
16 x 10in.
2009
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