The Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, The Redhead Gallery, LMCC and Pace Digital Gallery all located in Lower Manhattan, have joined opening forces on Friday, October 20, 2006

“Satellite Valencia – a program of North American videos for Valencia, Spain”
Pace Digital Gallery 163 William Street
Reception and discussion, Friday October 20, 2006 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

“Beautiful Discovery: The work of Joe Ben Plummer”
Redhead Gallery LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
Reception, Friday October 20, 2006 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

“Callyann Casteel – Burger Gore and the Blackwater Nasties”
Maiden Lane Exhibition, 125 Maiden Lane, Groundfloor
Reception and Performance, Friday October 20, 2006 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Callyann Casteel – Burger Gore and the Blackwater Nasties: this show will involve costumes spanning over the last six years of Callyann Casteel’s work in performance and soft sculpture. From the earliest gang of oblivious fanciful hamburgers to the most resent daunting towers of pattern, horns, limbs, chains and blood. All of theses characters posses a whimsical and often dark quality, causing there performance to be funny, mildly gory, at times just plain beautiful. Some of them use endurance and naivety, some concentrate on frustration, and others emit a sense of intimidating malevolence. Interacting with each other, this group of costumes intends to estrange the lobby of 125 Maiden Lane, in a performance Callyann Casteel is calling "Burger Gore and the Backwater Nasties".

Callyann Casteel will perform at the reception at 5:30 PM and at 7: 30 PM

Callyann Casteel earned a BFA in Printmaking from Kansas City Art Institute in 2002. She attended Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, 1996-97, and Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, 1998. Casteel’s drawings and soft sculptures – including puppets and life-sized costumes worn for public performances – have been exhibited at Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Telephonebooth Gallery, Urban Cultural Project’s Bank Gallery, Fahrenheit Gallery, The Next Space, and the H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute. Callyann Casteel lives and works in Kansas City . Callyann Casteel is the recipient of the 2005 Charlotte Street Award and she participated in the Art Omi International Artists’ Residency Program 2006.

The exhibition Callyann Casteel – Burger Gore and the Blackwater Nasties is curated by Elisabeth Akkerman, curator of The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York.

The exhibition was made possible with the generous support of Time Equities Inc. .

Maiden Lane Exhibition Space
125 Maiden Lane (btw. Water and Pearl Streets) New York City, NY 100038
Info: 1-212-206.6061, Daily from 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM