Current Workspace Resident Mike Estabrook will be featured in What's so funny about Peace, Love, and Understanding? at Esso Gallery, 531 W. 26th Street, New York, NY.

There will be an opening reception at Esso Gallery on Thursday, June 26th from 6-8 pm.

The show features work by Mike Estabrook, Daniele Galliano, Chitra Ganesh, Akira Ikezoe, Yoshio Itagaki, Anton Kannemeyer, Fabienne Lasserre, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Christopher McEvoy and William Villalongo and will be on view from June 26th - August 1st, 2008.

Esso Gallery
531 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
212 560 9728

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm
Summer Hours (starting July): Tuesday - Friday, 1 - 6 pm
or by appointment

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Former Workspace Resident Michael Bilsborough has created a new mural, Within Reach for the group show The Left Hand of Darkness at The Project in New York opening Thursday, June 26th, 2008.

The Left Hand of Darkness, a group exhibition curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmine Dubois, borrows its title from the first feminist science fiction novel written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1969. Set in a universe where individuals alternate between genders depending on the lunar cycle, the novel proposes an alternative social model that challenges traditional sexual dimorphism. After being transported from a heteronormative society to this new planet, the narrator states, "[...] my efforts took the form of self-consciously seeing a Gathenian first as a man then as a woman, forcing him into those categories so irrelevant to his nature and so essential to my own." During this journey, he is immersed in a world that redefines gender and sexual identities as we know them. Using the novel as a point of departure, the exhibition looks at artists who are playing with the dynamics of gender representation within a contemporary context.

An opening reception will be held this Thursday, June 26th, from 6-8 at The Project, 37 W 57th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019.

The Left Hand of Darkness
June 26 – August 15, 2008
The Project
37 W. 57th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10019
212 688 1585
www.elproyecto.com
Gallery Summer Hours:
Monday – Friday, 10 am to 5 pm

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Past workspace resident Michelle Handelman received a 2008 Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund grant for her project "Dorian", a multi-screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Inspired by the book's themes of youth, beauty, and the meaning of art, "Dorian" explores the decadence of celebrity culture and the excess of video imagery itself in an installation that combines video projection, live performance and music. The narrative plays out across multiple screens that simultaneously expand and contract time, and take Dorian on a journey from beautiful to grotesque through the layering of realtime video and animation.

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Current Swing Space artist Elisa Lendvay is featured in Tensegrity at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Brooklyn through July 20th.

The term Tensegrity was coined by Buckminster Fuller to describe the integrity of structures as being based in a synergy between balanced tension and compression components. Since then the term has been applied to a variety of uses, most notably by Carlos Castaneda to describe a system of movements, stances and stretches that emphasize the tension and relaxation of muscles. In this group of work tension exists formally between structure and surface, and between sculpture and painting. There is a pushing back and forth between the materials that define the surface and those that create the structure such that the two coexist in a balanced relationship.

Tensegrity features work by Joy Curtis, Michael DeLucia, Jim Lee, Elisa Lendvay, Keiko Narahashi.

KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND GALLERY
438 UNION AVENUE
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
718-383-7309

Hours: Friday - Sunday, Noon - 6 PM or by appointment
Take the L train to Lorimer or G train to Metropolitan

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Former Workspace Resident Lishan Chang's installation LC Bakery will be on view at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota until September 7th, 2008.

During the month of May, Lishan Chang was onsite producing and installing an exhibition in the Everist gallery featuring his concept, "LC Bakery." Charred baguettes are the basic building blocks for all works produced by the artist’s working studio, the LC Bakery. The baguettes receive a new identity in the hands of the artist, which he calls BLACKERY, a play on the blackened surface of the baguettes as well as an anagram of LC Bakery. The installation will include thousands of "blackery" as well as large format photographs and a scent and sound gallery

Additionally, the mayor of the city declared May 30th, the date of the installation's opening, to be LC Bakery Day in Sioux Falls.

Lishan Chang was also awarded a 2008 NYFA Fellowship for Architecture/Environmental Structures.

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Past Resident Charles Goldman is currently featured in the group show SOME THING ELSE curated by Simone Subal at Peter Blum Chelsea through August 1st.

Peter Blum Chelsea
526 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 244-6055
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10-6
www.peterblumgallery.com

Additionally, there is an article on Charles Goldman by B. Wurtz in the Summer 2008 issue of BOMB Magazine, currently on newsstands.

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2007-2008 Workspace Resident Simone Leigh is currently featured in The Future As Disruption at The Kitchen in New York, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons

Simone Leigh, Brooch #2, terracotta, colored porcelains, lab apparatus, steel, luster glazes

"The genre of science fiction, in all its various manifestations in books, television, music, and movies, has long provided a rich and valuable resource for artists who seek to critique contemporary society by looking forward. Science fiction transports us beyond the horizon of our current technologies and established ways of life in order to enable a renewed outlook on the present and, in particular, on today’s pressing political issues such as the environment, consumerist culture, and life during wartime. By envisioning possible ramifications of the technological, social, psychological, and political conditions of our current moment, the artists in this exhibition create works in sculpture, video, painting, and photography that are evocative of a daily existence quite distinct from our own. Artists include Julieta Aranda, Joan Banach, Sean Dack, Jonah Freeman,Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Simone Leigh, Ann Lislegaard, Adam Pendleton, Mungo Thomson, and William Villalongo."

The Future As Disruption
June 18–August 1
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
212-255-5793
www.thekitchen.org

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2004 Workspace Resident Christopher Ho is featured in "Cultivate", the outdoor companion exhibition to "Badlands" at MASS MoCA through August 1st.

Monumental Compost Heap, Christopher K. Ho, 2008

"Cultivate"
MASS MoCA at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens
Routes 102 and 183
Stockbridge, MA 01262

Christopher is also currently in "Made in America", curated by Janet Phelps, at Peel Gallery in Houston through July 31st.

Peel Gallery
4411 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, TX 77006

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Swing Space Artist Ketta Ioannidou is currently in a group show at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn.

Back to the Garden

Sunken Arena by Ketta Ioannidou

June 6th - July 20th, 2008
Metaphor Contemporary Art
382 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
(718) 254-9126
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12-6 and by appointment

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HOLY HOLES: ABSOLUTE STALLS
Curated by Denise Carvalho

at Dumbo Arts Center
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
T. 718.694.0831

June 14 - August 3, 2008

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm or by appointment 

Artists: Brent Wahl, Dylan Mortimer, Grady Gerbracht, Hadassa Goldvicht,
Jenny Marketou, Joseph Bennett, Adriana Varella, Angela Freiberger, Gearóid Dolan,
Tobaron Waxman, Kimberly Simpson, Karin Giusti, Marcia X, Meirav Leshem,
Kwabena Slaughter, and Neil Beloufa.
Denise Carvalho is an art critic, curator and independent scholar based in New York City.

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It's Not Your Fault: Art from Iceland, curated by Markús Thór Andrésson in collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson, features two former Workspace Residents: 2006-2007 Resident Shoplifter (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir) and 2003-2004 Resident Katrin Sigurdardottir. There will be an opening reception on Friday, June 27th from 6-9 pm at Luhring Augustine, 531 W. 24th Street, New York, NY 10011.

It's Not Your Fault will be on view from June 27th - August 8th, 2008.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
July/August Summer Hours:
Monday - Friday, 10am - 5:30pm

Additionally, Katrin Sigurdardottir is currently featured in group shows in São Paulo, Reykjavik, and Des Moines.

Poéticas da Natureza 
MAC / Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
april 25 - aug 24
curated by Katia Canton
http://www.macvirtual.usp.br/mac/

Experiment Marathon Reykjavik
Reykjavik Museum of Art, Iceland
may 15 - aug 24
curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Olafur Eliasson

http://www.artmuseum.is/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2182/3368_read-1041/date-995/
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/05/experiment_marathon_reykjavike.html

World Histories
DMAC / Des Moines Art Center
may 16 - aug 31
curated by Laura Burkhalter
http://desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/ex_meredith.html

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2005-2006 Workspace Resident Ernest Concepcion is currently featured in a group show at M.Y. ArtProsects.

'Surreal Naivete'

June 19 - July 26

M.Y. ArtProspects
547 W. 27th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-268-7132

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The Rain, the Park and Other Things, curated by Renée Riccardo

Karen Azoulay, Megan Cump, Elizabeth Huey, Joyce Korotkin, Jason Middlebrook, Doug Morris, Jon Rosenbaum, and Victor Schrager

June 7 - July 12, 2008

Nicole Fiacco Gallery
506 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-5090

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Monday, 12 - 6 p.m., Sunday 12 - 5 p.m.

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Counting
by Maria Gabriele
Directed by Christine Farrell

Wanda is on her way out of prison after six years. Gianna is on her way in. Stuck in the same holding cell, an extraordinary and intense friendship emerges. Wanda, in a moment of selflessness shares with Gianna her secret of how to survive on the inside.

Sparrow
by Linda Faigao-Hall
Directed by Ian Morgan

New York artist, Tina (the Filipina Georgia O’Keefe) has returned to the Philippines after 10 years. When her childhood friend Cris arranges a secret meeting, Tina discovers that Chris has become entangled with a militant Maoist organization. Now they must both face the choices that life has forced upon them and the consequences of their lives apart.

Last Call on Bourbon Street
by William K. Powers
Directed by Alexa Polmer

It’s the first Mardi Gras since Katrina at the Bourbon Street Bar and Grille. The waters have receded and the sound bites have dried up. There ain’t no customers and the Insurance Man is on his way to shut ‘em down. But bar owner Benny and his motley crew of regulars ain't goin' down without a fight. The Insurance Man doesn’t know what he’s in for ‘cuz like Benny says Nawlins ain’t goin’ back to the vines!

May 29 to June 14th @ The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row 410 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th Aves) / $18
www.TicketCentral.com
www.LivingImageArts.org

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Saving Our Cultural Capital:
The Challenges Facing Independent Venues and Artists in Manhattan
Saturday, June 7th, 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Wolman Hall, 64 West 11th Street

A symposium hosted by The Tank, Milano The New School For Management and Urban Policy, and Fractured Atlas, in cooperation with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer

Co-hosted by Collective Unconscious, chashama, The Field and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

New York City is a world-renowned cultural destination: from big-budget Broadway shows to dance performances in small Brooklyn lofts to Chelsea gallery openings. The performing arts drive the city's economy and tourism and give New York the cultural texture that makes it a uniquely dynamic environment.

As cost-of-living and real estate prices continue to rise, can young artists and small venues still call Manhattan home? New York – and Manhattan, in particular – cannot lose the energy brought by these individuals and organizations, and the higher-market entertainment industry in the city relies on their innovations…but can we still make New York work for the emerging arts? This event will bring together city officials, arts professionals, business representatives, advocates and freelancers for an afternoon of conversation about solutions to the challenges facing independent venues and emerging artists in Manhattan.

This event is FREE and open to
artists, advocates, policy-makers, foundation representatives
& everyone committed to keeping Manhattan the cultural capital of the world.

Saturday, June 7th, 2:00pm – 5:30pm
Wolman Hall, The New School, 64 West 11th Street
Program:
2:00pm: Doors open
2:30pm: Keynote speech by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
3:00pm – 4:30pm: Panel discussion on the challenges facing independent venues and artists in Manhattan, followed by a Q&A session
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Livable New York Services Fair and Happy Hour with complimentary drinks, highlighting the resources available to freelance artists and small organizations including healthcare, accounting and law services. Featured organizations include:
• The Actors Fund
• ArtBusiness Initiative/Seedco Financial
• Arts & Business Council of New York
• Fractured Atlas
• New York City Performing Arts Spaces
• Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

RSVP: Rachel@thetanknyc.org
More information: http://www.thetanknyc.org/culturalcapital

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Lisa Bateman

Arbor Vitae
(what we want was free)

Installation
(Rooftop, Premier Veal Building)

MORE INFO

*555 West Street (off West Side Highway 2 blocks north of W. 12th) @ Gansevoort St. NYC

May 25-June 13th 2008

*kindly sponsored by the Manhattan Community Art Fund and the Pratt Institute Faculty Fund
special thanks to: The City of New York, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Chad Bolton, curator Sandra Skurvida, Jeffrey Manzer from the NYC Economic Development Corporation, Pablo Narvaez, Jon Day and Florent Restaurant.

Press Release
Lisa Bateman, Installation
Arbor Vitae (what we want was free)
May 25 – June 10 2008
In this project, Bateman conflates the over-abundance of a lush grape arbor with the anachronistic and antiquated signage of the folk-painted Premier Veal building in one of the remaining grittier blocks of the Meatpacking District. The piece references the inundation and saturation of wealth in the area and at the same time playfully suggests the “greening” of grapes in a “red” slaughterhouse district which has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the highest-priced residential and retail neighborhoods in the city.

Ruefully mocking the three hanging orbs of pawnshop logo history and the guileless simplicity of “Nature”, Bateman’s work situates itself with seamless irony among the high-end boutiques, high-rise hotels, luxe co-ops and condos, and current and abandoned wholesale meat packing plants of one of New York’s most fashionable districts.

Like an angelic halo hovering above the abandoned slaughterhouse of the soon-to-be demolished Premier Veal building, Bateman’s project seems to protect the nightly dreams of the homeless and transient few seeking “otherworldliness” at this crossroads of disappearing Manhattan.

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Lisa Bateman is a New York City artist who explores site, community and response in her multi-material and dimensional Installation works. Projects have been located in both exhibition spaces and urban spaces, and are intended to explore, reflect and comment on the circumstances of public life and social spaces as reflected in local architecture and the changing destiny of cities. Her work aspires to be an excavation of meaning – political, social, cultural and personal -- focusing on the hidden historical and social-political expressions of representation.

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