SPINELLO GALLERY

PHOTO: ARTKMAN
Hidden amongst the urban redevelopment in the Wynwood Art District, Anthony Spinello converted his one bedroom apartment into the Spinello Gallery. Since 2005, Anthony Spinello has transformed his once two-floor walk up into what is now considered a notable gallery space. Anthony Spinello decided to sell every piece of furniture in his apartment on Craigslist in conquest of filling a void in the Miami art scene.
Opening September 2007, Spinello Gallery has moved out of the apartment and into the new gallery space now located in the heart of the Wynwood Art District. (2294 NW 2nd Avenue).
Spinello Gallery prides itself in exhibiting intelligent works of art in every medium by contemporary local and international emerging artists. Spinello Gallery has become the playground for unorthodox and experimental artists who don’t easily fit into the confines of the traditional gallery space. Spinello Gallery is steadily making headway in the Miami art scene and beyond becoming a contender in the Art World.
ARTISTS: Sandra Bermudez, Blackbooks, Adriana Farmiga, Lou Laurita, Lee Materazzi, Federico Nessi, Santiago Rubino, She Kills He, Tawnie Silva, Tawnie & Lou, Agustina Woodgate WORKS AVAILABLE: [dNASAb], Orlando Camacho, Jeff Hand, Kerry Phillips, Josephina Posch, Alison Ward, Michael Bilsborough
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CURRENT EXHIBITION (EXTENDED) . LEE MATERAZZI . 06.30.08
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Opening Reception: 06.14.08 (7-10pm)
Miami, FL, April 25, 2008 - Spinello Gallery is proud to present "In Between Places," the highly anticipated solo exhibition by Miami-based artist, Lee Materazzi. This will be her first solo exhibition at Spinello Gallery. Opening reception is May 10th, 7-10pm.
Identity, environment and circumstance are the driving forces behind this new body of work by Miami based artist Lee Materazzi. Puncturing private inner sanctums with her lens she records intimate, defenseless spaces that marooned in the quiet splendor of her images resonate with vulnerability and personal truth.
Testing the validity of elements commonly used to establish and communicate a sense of self - such as clothes and décor - Materazzi crosses personal boundaries, exposing her subject's soft pink underbellies in the name of her art.
Her models appear nude and powerless; decapitated by surroundings which volunteer as much about their identity as their hidden face withholds.
Informed by a circumference of thought and a natural inclination to disrupt the mundane these images embody a simplicity and purity rarely found in staged photography. By marooning her peculiar creations in a dislocated everyday reality we are able to imagine ourselves in a different light.
Known for encapsulating urban and social topology with an opportunistic flare, Materazzi imbues found elements and chance, everyday settings with a new significance. And in the twilight of satire her prosaic observations take on a profound beauty.
Exhibition through June 30th.
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PAST EXHIBITION . BLACKBOOKS . 03.08.08
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Opening Reception: 03.08.08 (7-10pm)
Miami, FL, January 25, 2008 - Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida - 33127) is proud to present "Ask Us About Our Free Stabbings," the highly anticipated debut solo exhibition by Fort Lauderdale-based creative genius', Blackbooks, featuring laser cut sculptures, mix media paintings, and installations.
The debut exhibition is comprised of sadistic poetic works deeply rooted in literature. The pioneer master craftsman's sophistically fuse technology, design, vintage pop iconography, written word, and graffiti into mischievous innovative works of art. In "Meadow," an intricate wood cut wall sculpture; the duo creates an abstract lyrical masterpiece, sprawling 12 feet across the gallery. Blackbooks seamlessly merge traditional street "get ups" with entangled circuitry, thus creating exuberant amorphic contemporary landscapes.
According to Blackbooks, "We are the ones that will tuck you in at night. Sometimes we tie your shoelaces together while you catch a catnap. We are the ones that whisper sweet nothings in your ear, like "we should put a bottle rocket in the bean dip." We send you flowers on your most joyous occasions and shed a tear for you when things do not go so well. On occasions, we have been known to attend Barber Shop Quartets, singing soft serenades with a sultry smoothness in some secluded swanky salon. We enjoy Slip n' Slides in your backyard on a hot summer's day. If a big rodent dies, we are definitely going to smell it."
Which concludes why this show is not one to miss.
Blackbooks (Andy Black & Books IIII), were the first to bridge the gap between the laser fabrication method and an already existing contemporary stencil movement. In 2004, the duo changed the face of stencil art with their eponymous design factory: BLACKBOOKSTENCILS. Blackbooks has designed and fabricated custom works for street art legends such as Shepard Fairy, Logan Hicks, Dalek, and Andy Howell (to name a few), as well as for major corporations such as, Puma, Absolute, Red Bull, K-Swiss, Scion, and local advertising giant: Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
Exhibition through March 15th.
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PAST EXHIBITION . CHRISTINA PETTERSSON . 01.12.08
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Opening Reception: 01.12.08 (7-10pm)
Miami, FL, December 26, 2007 - Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida - 33127) is proud to present "This may be the last time, I don't know," the first solo exhibition by Miami-based artist, Christina Pettersson, featuring impeccably rendered graphite drawings on paper.
A brick - most minimal of objects, in and of itself hardly an object at all, but a cell for the larger structure it will become. Yet a drawing of brick can be another matter entirely. Lone graphite drawings of bricks, surrounded by a great expanse of white paper flank the walls, telling Pettersson's story of how spirit actually finds its way inside of matter- and how humans tend to it.
These bricks, lovingly taken by Pettersson from famous writer's houses, wrapped in blankets like precious jewels, and carried home, one by one, are like a key which unlocks all cryptic matter and becomes infinite. Pettersson explains, "They are a continual transformation whereby a brick is not a just a brick but the house it belongs to, the writer, the written, the event, the artist/thief, and finally, the artwork. A drawing of a brick represents the second in which the moment actually becomes the object, that is, until the intensity of the drawing finally breaks it, and it returns to being a moment again." Pettersson creates a strange breed of magic, a narrative not unlike phantom-limb syndrome or déjà-vu, which can never be fully explained. All at once, this mere chink in the foundation becomes not only the structure it pre-ports to build but a kind of prophesy of the past, the slow hoarse sound of history that seems to begin before sound itself has started, and ceases long after sound has died away.
On its façade, Pettersson creates an optimistic message, a glimmer contained within these rare artifacts of life that has managed to survive against a sea of history and forgetfulness. The bricks hover in the mind's eye, like a dark star in a white void. Yet how quickly the vast white page begins to assault the viewer, shy but determined, reminding us of how difficult it can be to resurrect the dead. Reminding us of all that is already lost. For in the finale the bricks are sort of a tragedy, that of giants being outlived by small piles of stones, and the queerness of why in the world someone would care to draw them.
Exhibition through February 2nd.
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PULSE MIAMI / SPINELLO GALLERY / IMPULSE BOOTH I-04
SUSAN LEE-CHUN . SOLO BOOTH . INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE
[Works available by SANDRA BERMUDEZ & SANTIAGO RUBINO]
SoHo Studios
2136 NW 1st Ave (Entrance @ NW 21st St.)
Wynwood Art District, Miami
Wednesday, December 5 - Sunday December 9, 2007
FAIR HOURS
Wednesday, December 5 / 10pm - 4pm
Thursday, December 6 / 10am - 6pm
Friday, December 7 / 10am - 6pm
Saturday, December 8 / 10am - 6pm
Sunday, December 9 / 10am - 5pm
ADMISSION
General Admission $15 / Children under 12 FREE
(Tickets may be purchased at the door)
www.pulse-art.com
SCOPE MIAMI / SPINELLO PROJECTS / BOOTH 53
FEDERICO NESSI
CHRISTINA PETTERSSON
JOB PISTON
PEDRO VARELA
AGUSTINA WOODGATE
Roberto Clemente Park
101 NW 34th Street
Wynwood Art District, Miami
Wednesday, December 5 - Sunday December 9, 2007
FAIR HOURS
Wednesday, December 5 / 10pm - 5pm
Thursday, December 6 / 10am - 8pm
Friday, December 7 / 10am - 8pm
Saturday, December 8 / 10am - 8pm
Sunday, December 9 / 10am - 6pm
ADMISSION
General Admission $12
(Tickets may be purchased at the door)
www.scope-art.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Curators: Claire Breukel & Anthony Spinello
Vernissage Breakfast: 12.05.07 (9-11am)
Art Basel Public Show Dates: 12.05.07 - 12.09.07 (9am-8pm)
Opening Gala: 12.08.07 (7-10pm)
Miami, FL, October 1st, 2007 – Spinello Gallery, (2294 NW 2nd Ave., Miami Florida - 33127) is proud to present “Littlest Sister 07,” the smallest art fair in town, playfully commenting on the notion of the “Art Fair” as the viewer ironically steps back into the gallery.
This year, Art Basel Miami Beach finds herself a new sibling. If you're looking to find small diamonds in the rough, look no further. Consisting of 4 scaled down booths (4’ x 8’ in size), Littlest Sister 07 uniquely houses a multi-media exhibition of over 25 of today’s most provocative emerging artists. The miniature art fair features scaled down works of art by artists both local and abroad, curated by Claire Breukel (Independent Curator and Executive Director of Locust Projects, Miami) and Art Fair Organizer (Gallerist), Anthony Spinello. Spinello, explains, “The art world flocks to Miami in December primarily to explore the art fair circuit, to find the next acquisition to their collection. Few come to visit the local galleries. So why not turn the gallery into an art fair and feature some of the most interesting emerging artists under one roof?” Littlest Sister 07 is a fragment of the explosive satellite art fair phenomena; exploring the “booth” as a venue to exhibit and sell art. Breukel explains, "Besides being a charming reinterpretation of an art fair, Littlest Sister's scaled down presentation reinvestigates what one considers as a substantial work of art and toys with the associations of showing artwork at art fairs.”
Now in its 6th season, the effect of Art Basel Miami Beach has spawned 20+ “satellite” art fairs throughout Miami, housing 1100+ galleries and alternative spaces from around the world. Spinello and Breukel have added one more art fair to this line up. However Littlest Sister doesn’t provide the usual.
Exhibition through January 5th.
Artists: Blackbooks, Timothy Berg, Sandra Bermudez, Ryan Brennan, Paul Butler, Susan Lee-Chun, Adriana Farmiga, Thomas Hollingworth, Kris Knight, Lou Laurita, Lee Materazzi, Tracy Nakayama, Federico Nessi, Jonathan Peck, Job Piston, Kerry Phillips, Santiago Rubino, Samantha Salzinger, Reinaldo Sanguino, Tom Scicluna, Tawnie Silva, Jen Stark, Pedro Varela, Michelle Weinberg, Agustina Woodgate
BOOTH 1
BOOTH 2
BOOTH 3
BOOTH 4
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MIAMI’S 1ST CURATED STREET LEVEL GROUP EXHIBITION . 12.06.07
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Miami, FL, November 15, 2007 – SPINELLO GALLERY and BLACKBOOKS in association with LANDSEA VENTURES and SABOTAZ is proud to present PRIMARY FLIGHT - Miami's first street level, site specific, mural Installation throughout the Wynwood Art District. The exhibition features over 25 of today’s most respected graffiti artists local and abroad, curated by Books IIII, Anthony Spinello, and Lynn Yohana Howard. Maps outlining the street installation will be available to download online: www.primaryflight.com. Graffiti has long left the streets, having become embraced by some of the world’s greatest collections and museums. Primary Flight’s soul purpose is to provide street artists with concrete outdoor wall space where they have free reign to install their art as they see fit - back into graffiti’s original environment - to be viewed in what is arguably its most appealing format.
ARTISTS INCLUDE: David Choe, Lady Pink, Retna, El Mac, Richard Hambleton, She Kills He, Santiago Rubino, Siner, Depoe, Logan Hicks, Peat Wollaeger, Kenton Parker, Reyes, Dolla, AIM, MSG, Brandon Opalka, Blek Le Rat, Tes One, Bask, Michael De Feo, Futura, London Police, Andy Howell, Cycle, Ellis G, Gorilla Tactiks
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
[email protected] / www.primaryflight.com
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PAST EXHIBITION . LITTLE BOXES . 10.13.07
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Miami, FL, September 18th, 2007 – Spinello Gallery, (2294 NW 2nd Ave., Miami Florida - 33127) is proud to present “Little Boxes,” a group exhibition featuring drawings by Michael Bilsborough, photography by Lee Materazzi, paintings by Lou Laurita, and sculptures by Kerry Phillips. Cookie-cutter forms and ticky-tacky rules dictate how we live, think, and believe. Neatly stacked identical floor plans systematically shape our lives, a “Levittown Kingdom.” But, behind closed doors do the demons come out to play? Once you're inside, can you ever get out? When the structure disappears do the remnants live on? Although each artist creates with a different medium, all explore the confines of little boxes; the people who live, play, and die in them.
Drawings of bacchanalian bashes and mysterious rituals, edging on power struggles between the participants are the steady handwork of a New York City emerging talent, Michael Bilsborough. Men and women couples, compete and retreat in episodes of sexual misadventure. These orgies initially thrive on libidinal laxity and appetitive abandon, yet soon crumble under the weight of - Overindulgence? Indolence? Weariness? World-weariness? What we witness is a mixed review of sex, reaching beyond commonplace, one-dimensional views of sex as unconditional pleasure. Fascinated with the identity imbued within objects and their relationship with our own character, It’s with this relationship in mind that Miami based artist, Lee Materazzi, creates assemblages using both objects and willing people whom she finds on the street. This series of photographs explores the history of objects and our relation to them. Gouache paintings depicting meticulously rendered imagery within text are the masterful works of New York City based artist, Lou Laurita. His works are organized around three forms of language: affirmations, positive assertions/declarations, and popular song lyrics. As seen in J-Doe, Laurita’s collaging of the textual (“You Ask Yourself This”) and the visual (A man passed out in the brush) is arranged in an intuitive manner that employs the associative possibilities between visual perception and the interpretation of language. However, Laurita goes beyond challenging the way we seek and understand meaning by focusing on the emotional charge of words and the mystery of representation. In this way, the works act as verbal sledgehammers, creating a lexicon in which ideas such as beauty and brutality are pressed into one. Miami based artist, Kerry Phillips, describes her work as “documentary fiction.” She explains, “Memories are at best unstable. Even as I tell my stories I am keenly aware of their inability to stay the same through tellings. Perceived memories — remade with each remembering — become more dominant than the reality of lived experiences. And instead of clarifying or reinforcing memory, habitual use is causing these images to slowly wear away.”
Exhibition runs through: November 3rd, 2007
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PAST EXHIBITION . SUSAN LEE-CHUN . SOLO SHOW . 09.08.07
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW WORKS / PERFORMANCE BY SUSAN LEE-CHUN IN 1ST SOLO SHOW
Miami, FL, August 21st, 2007 – Spinello Gallery has moved out of the apartment and into it’s new home located at 2294 NW 2nd Avenue, in the heart of the Wynwood Art District. On Saturday, September 8th, Spinello Gallery will officially open shop, featuring Miami's "It Girl," Susan Lee-Chun, in her highly anticipated debut solo exhibition, "VERSUS," curated by Anthony Spinello.
Susan Lee-Chun, a performance-based artist, works in an interdisciplinary manner. Her interests in the relationship between identity and place manifest in a body of work that incorporates performance, video, photography, and installations. Fascinated with the power of humor and its capability to grab the attention of a wider audience, Lee-Chun employs a tongue in cheek style to her works. However, the humor is only a façade; beyond the image lies a deeper intensity to the work that explores notions of race and identity politics. Through subtle representations and actions in the work, the artist investigates the pervasive struggles of being classified as an ‘other’, and one’s innate desire to fit in. Lee-Chun confronts this classification by creating interactive works about how her presence and actions can impact and alter the perceptions of the viewing public.
Susan Lee-Chun reveals the prelude and aftermath of her transformation into a comical warrior. This recurring character named Sioux sets out to conquer how the individual perceives reality. The exhibition will feature an interactive performance by the artist during the opening reception on September 8th, 2007 – 7:00 to 10:00 PM. Susan Lee-Chun obtained her BFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited & performed internationally and nationally- Herning Kunstmuseum (Denmark), Vienna Biennale (2006), Pacific Asia Museum (LA), The Moore Space (Miami) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami).
SUSAN LEE-CHUN: THE END IS NOW
SUSAN LEE-CHUN: OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE
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SANTIAGO RUBINO . SOLO . DELUSIVE CONTENTMENT . 09.06.08
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Delusive Contentment an exhibition of new works by Miami-based Santiago Rubino. For his first solo exhibition in New York Rubino presents graphite drawings on paper in ornate frames which depict otherworldly wide-eyed young women.
Inspired as much by dreams as by chance encounters with complete strangers, his beautiful creatures with their pensive and melancholy expressions, evoke feelings of love, sadness and longing. Dark-haired figures dominate sparse backgrounds giving the impression of characters alone in the desert or even outer space. Spanning time as well as space, Rubino draws on sepia toned paper and attires his subjects in anything from Victorian dresses to S&M spiked heel black leather boots. These juxtapositions give his works a timeless quality that adds to the eeriness and universality of their appeal.
No matter their attire, the figures are stoically composed; whether they look ahead at the viewer or off into the distance their gaze is of such intensity the viewer can only begin to imagine what memory or daydream consumes them. The black graphite and the restraint Rubino employs to make the drawings reveal a dark undertone to the work that addresses the human capacity for evil and destruction in the face of beauty.
With his artwork, Rubino creates an elaborate cosmology that encapsulates his views on the interconnectivity of individuals throughout history and his belief in karma and an ever-flowing energy through which everything is bound.
Rubino, the 27 year-old, self-taught Argentinean, first known by local police and the admiring public for his exquisite graffiti paintings, is successfully channeling his energies and gaining attention in the art world. This is his first solo exhibition in New York.
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BOOKS IIII . SCION ART TOUR, NY . 09.06.08
SCION PRESENTS, INSTALLATION 4: IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Los Angeles - June 2007 - This July, Scion commences the fourth installment of the innovative Scion Installation Art Tour entitled: 'It's A Beautiful World.' The theme; "It's a Beautiful World" was interpreted by each artist, in one of four mediums— painting, photography, sculpture, and collage. This year's Installation tour will visit nine cities and feature a diverse array of artists from around the world.
This year's artists include: Andrew Pommier, Andy Mueller, Angela Boatwright, Blaine Fontana, Blek LeRat, Books llll, Caia Koopman, Chris Yormick, Cody Hudson, Dalek, David Choe, Eye One, Francesco LoCastro, Freddi C, J. Shea, James Jean, Jeff Soto, Joshua Krause, Kelsey Brookes, Kenton Parker, Kofie, Mel Kadel, Michael Sieben, Mike Giant, Rammellzee, RETNA, R. Grimes, Ron English, Sam Flores, Sage Vaughn, Skwerm, Tim McCormick, Travis Millard and more.
For more information on the tour, the artists, the artwork and details from past tours please visit: http://www.scion.com/installation
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SUSAN LEE-CHUN . LUCKMAN GALLERY, LA . BODY DOUBLE . 08.25.07
An exhibition of photographs and videos by emerging female artists who incorporate the use of their own image, often in performative acts, to create or stage a variety of psychological circumstances. Reflecting influences ranging from Surrealism, through film, to narrative photography of the 1990s, these artists explore new worlds that are distinctive and captivating. Featuring works by Caitlin Atkinson, Liz Cohen, Roya Falahi, Carlee Fernandez, Kara Hearn, Desiree Holman, Susan Lee-Chun, Gina Osterloh, Shannon Plumb, Barbara Probst, Wendy Red Star, Daniella Steinfeld, Haruko Tanaka, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Kristine Thompson, and Janaina Tschäpe.
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GREETINGS FROM ORLANDO CAMACHO
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THE SUNPOST BEST OF 2007
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT . EDITORS' CHOICE
BEST EMERGING ARTIST, MALE
SANTIAGO RUBINO
Whoever shows at Anthony Spinello Gallery is definitely an artist to watch. An unassuming personage, Santiago Rubino’s stylized drawings and street murals channel Piero della Francesca, 19th Century Romanticism, and low-brow culture á la Juxtapoz magazine.
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MOCA’S OPTIC NERVE FILM FESTIVAL
MOCA / 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL 33161
Screening: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Free with Museum Admission / General Admission: $5
7 pm First Screening
8 pm Artist Reception with Starbucks
9 pm Second Screening
(North Miami) - The Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present the ninth installment of Optic Nerve, the popular annual festival featuring short films and videos by some of the freshest and most innovative artists in South Florida. The films were selected from an open call that resulted in over 60 submissions. Optic Nerve is part of the museum’s ongoing effort to provide new venues for emerging South Florida artists. At the conclusion of the first screening, MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater will announce which work will be purchased for the museum’s collection, with funds provided by Starbucks Coffee Company.
Optic Nerve IX will be presented at MOCA’s Joan Lehman Building (770 NE 125th Street, North Miami) on Thursday, July 26, at 7 and 9 pm with a reception with the artists at 8 pm.
Optic Nerve IX is sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company. Optic Nerve is free with museum admission. RSVP is required. Seating is limited and not guaranteed. For reservations, call 305.893.6211. Admission to MOCA’s Joan Lehman Building is free for MOCA members, North Miami residents, City of North Miami employees and children under 12, $5 adults, $3 seniors and students with ID.
The 17 films incorporate a wide range of narrative and non-narrative film and animation techniques, range from 50 seconds to six minutes in length. Optic Nerve IX finalists were selected by a panel comprised Patrick de Bokay, Director of the Miami International Film Festival, Gean Moreno, a noted Miami artist, critic and curator, and Bonnie Clearwater, Executive Director and Chief Curator of MOCA.

SUSAN LEE-CHUN
"Will You Tell Me All Your Ancient Chinese Secrets?"
Performance-based Miami artist Susan Lee-Chun revisits actual questions posed to her, which initially appear humorous and silly, yet quickly cross the threshold to painful and humiliating.
AGUSTINA WOODGATE
"How To Knit A Scarf."
Miami artist Agustina Woodgate emphasizes process and tactility in her short film.
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BOOTH # 65
FEATURING: SUSAN LEE-CHUN, SANTIAGO RUBINO, BLACKBOOKS, ADRIANA FARMIGA, LOU LAURITA
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LOU LAURITA . 06.28.07 - 08.02.07
GUILD & GREYSHKUL . 28 WOOSTER ST . WWW.GUILDGREYSHKUL.COM
For his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Lou Laurita presents fifteen large scale gouache paintings of imagery meticulously rendered within text. As the title suggests, the exhibition is organized around three forms of language found online: personal profiles,affirmations (or positive assertions/declarations,) and popular song lyrics. Imagery includes portraits of drunken couples, small disasters, Victorian botanicals, and coloring book illustrations. His collaging of the textual and the visual is arranged in an intuitive manner that employs the associative possibilities between visual perception and the interpretation of language. However, Laurita goes beyond challenging the way we seek and understand meaning by focusing on the emotional charge of words and the mystery of representation. In this way, the works act as verbal sledgehammers, creating a lexicon in which ideas such as beauty and brutality are pressed into one. Laurita addresses the impetus for the exhibition is a recent statement:
We create profiles of ourselves for various sites on the internet...We can be in control of how we want to be perceived, we can be honest about who we are, or we can indicate what might be bristling under the surface...It’s a blanket of words to crawl under when the reality of that loneliness can bring our stories to a predictable conclusion. So we ask for the physical extremes: to dominate or be dominated, to maintain control or succumb, being completely vulnerable and willing to do whatever it takes to be touched, acknowledged, noticed, included...We ask for love and companionship or maybe just a dinner out and we describe how we’ve been hurt in the past and how empty this culture seems and the impossibility of making a lasting connection. We write the lyrics to our favorite song or the song that best describes how we feel right now or that describes an emotion we can’t put into our own words. And with all that description is an image. A picture of you and your bar friends, of you and a girlfriend drunk, or you at Gay Disney, or your asshole, or your hard on, or you in full leather, or your kitten, or you covered in the semen of a group of men, or you at your brother’s wedding, or a drawing of the type of sex you want to have, or a Victorian botanical, or your favorite painting, or a comic book character. And in many profiles there are affirmations, there is hope, and there is beauty in that longing that connects us. There’s a party going on. The party we sometimes assume we’re not invited to...There’s a party going on and we see images posted of the party that has happened...I am a participant, looking in the mirror and telling myself what I want, trying to make a wish a reality. An affirmation which works with the predictability of a crap shoot in a cyber universe where I pray to be grounded and whole, imagine there’s no heaven, want you to love me forever, and to fuck me as hard as you can, all in the same paragraph.
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SANTIAGO RUBINO & SANDRA BERMUDEZ . 05.26.07 - 06.16.07
MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY . 170 S LA BREA AVENUE, LOS ANGELES WWW.MKGALLERY.COM . 323 933 4408 . [email protected]
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AGUSTINA WOODGATE . "THE MOBILE HAIRDRESSER" . PERFORMANCE -------------------------- COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR YOU! --------------------------
A wall on castors, a tiled floor, a salon chair, and a mirror is everything that the Hairdresser, Agustina Woodgate, needs to carry out her nomadic gathering task.
Woodgate sets up shop with her portable salon as she travels around the cities collecting hair. Woodgate explains that her performance “provides direct physical contact, interaction, integration, and confrontation with the local population. Collecting hair is an absolute process of reincarnation: from ‘body waste’ to ‘bio/cultural installation’.”
The Mobile Hairdresser intends to directly interact with the community - A Body contribution. Woodgate’s aim is to receive as much hair donations as possible and reuse it to produce knitted hair sculptures.
The Mobile Hairdresser has already visited New York, Miami, and Puerto Rico, among others, and will soon be in a city near you.
ART CENTER SOUTH FLORIDA, 2007
PUERTO RICO, 2007
CIRCA ART FAIR, 2007