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Friday, June 10: Emergence: New Works by KC Tidemand

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:21:06 +0000

Emergence: New Works by KC Tidemand

Curated by Jung Hee Mun

Emergence: New Works by KC Tidemand is an exhibition referencing the modern limbo we face in the technological tundra. It is composed solely of two-dimensional works center around the traditional subject of the landscape. Flourishing future cities and machinery are depicted within desolate environments. With the artist's background in installation, these flat landscapes verge on the three-dimensional by virtue of how they are installed in the space. The show consists of two photographic pieces, two oil paintings, a large drawing on paper, a hand-etched Plexi piece, and a drawn textile with metal detailing. Although they vary in material and process, they all share a visual language and a barren, yet abundant nature.

Meticulously made and prepared, these pieces serve as much as a timeline as a depiction of space. The tradition of mapping is a central theme throughout the exhibition, with the change from hand drawn maps to computerized GPS systems being opposing influences in the artworks. Each piece has its own schema with data given, as well as withheld, creating a dual characteristic of absences and abundance of information speckled through the gallery space. The viewer is left to fill out the blanks and imagine what should be presented. Playing with our imaginations and sentiments towards a dystopian future Tidemand’s work mirror the twenty-first-century status: a space between automation and manual labor, reconciling the gap through her laborious and often monotonous processes. Her art disrupts the flow found in the industrial and mechanical by her distinct and persistent use of the human hand. This, in turn, produces a dichotomy in the work, between the soft and hard, blurred and sharp. Tidemand shows how repetitive yet unique mark making creates a universe onto itself, a series of information all beautifully rendered in an ordered mess. Emergence refers both to our deepest fear and highest hopes for the growing interchangeability between the individual and the technological landscape surrounding them.

KC Tidemand is an artist and educator, originally from Norway. She received her Bachelor's degree in Studio Art and Philosophy from Skidmore College and her Masters in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 2015. Tidemand’s artwork deals with the notion of production and expansion, drawing influence from the polarity between reductive and emergent systems; where the former is characterized by its hierarchical networks while the latter is a decentralized web of connectivity. Using these two different systems as a tableau for the work, she plays with the limits of their visual properties and through this, explores how they affect our behavior, through liberation or restriction. Tidemand is a founding member of Art Theory Project; an art collective focused on bringing a contemporary art dialogue to the local communities and schools in NYC. She has shown internationally, including several galleries in Norway and the United States. She is currently living and working in New York City.

Jung Hee Mun is an artist, educator and independent curator based in New York City. Mun earned her Master’s degree in Fine Arts with a focus in an interdisciplinary practice from School of Visual Arts in NYC and Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mun’s recent work includes interactive projection, participatory performance, video, and photography. Mun explores issues of identity, violence, information infrastructure and sociopolitical ideologies in forms of fictions and dreams triggered by her identity as a Korean-American. Mun served as a cultural ambassador for Department for Culture & Creative Development of the city of San Antonio, Texas. She is a founding member of Art Theory Project, an art collective focused on connecting local communities with local artists by organizing art classes, exhibitions, and lectures. Mun’s works are in a collection of the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is currently living and working in NYC.

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Saturday, May 21: Dissilience Brooklyn - An All Women Artshow

rabbitholeprojects — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:19:09 +0000

dissilience: noun 1. the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe...

We are Dissilience. Smaller and larger fragments making up a greater whole. We are procreating a future for woman hood. Where do you fit into this whole? Celebrating woman in the arts through mixed media, music and dance.

$10-$20 SUGGESTED DONATIONS

Dissilience was born in Los Angeles when a group of women artists collaborated to curate an all women's artshow. With the success of Dissilience & Dissilience 2, the show moved to other cities like Dissilience San Francisco and Dissilience Oakland. Now the show is making its debut in the east coast of Brooklyn,NY.
The event will also be a fundraiser for A FREE BIRD, a non-profit organization providing kids with a cancer recovery program through the arts. Proceeds from Dissilience Brooklyn will be donated to Free Bird.

http://dissiliencebrooklyn.blogspot.com/

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dissilience-brooklyn-tickets-24113691701

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Thursday, April 28: A Klein(d) of Blue

rabbitholeprojects — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:14:57 +0000

A Klein(d) of Blue Opening

Emma Backer invites you to her opening on Thursday, April 28th from 7 - 9pm showcasing photographs created in tribute to Yves Klein and his color blue.

On May 19, 1960, The French Patent Office issued Patent Number 63471 to Yves Klein for his invention of a new paint mixing technique. This patent inadvertently led to the invention of International Klein Blue (IKB) a color that Yves Klein built his career around and artists and brands have referred back to ever since. Emma was inspired not only by Klein’s ability to successfully work with one color for an entire career but also the strong emotions that the textural elements of his paintings evoke. Emma’s series of photographs are meant to elicit that same reaction.

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Weds and Thurs, April 20-21: Thinking With Our Hands

rabbitholeprojects — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:58:00 +0000

Opening April 20th from 6:30-9:30PM

Closing April 21st from 6-8:30PM

Artists include:

Daniel Allegrucci, Fiorella Gonzales-Vigil, Hovey Brock, Jacob Williams, Simone Couto, Quinn Dukes, Katherine Verdickt, Alexandra Hammond, Chang Shen Tan, Brandi Marti, Christybomb, Seirin Nagano, Donna Cleary

Thinking With Our Hands

The decoupling of craft and art has been in process since the Industrial Revolution, yet skill and craftsmanship remain common terms connoting cultural and economic value. Whole movements of “craft” foods and “makers” are alive and well in fields ranging from luxury goods to scrap-booking to regenerative agriculture and product design, but specific skill in manipulating materials is no longer a prerequisite for making art. This feature of art since the mid 20th Century is often bemoaned in accusations of its unrecognizability as art: previously understood as the production of a trained master. (e.g.“My four year old could have made that.”)

In the so-called Information Age (now the Digital Age) the primary skills of more and more workers have to do with the manipulation of ideas and knowledge or the creation of particular interpersonal interactions or experiences. The steelworker, loom operator or carpenter of the past is likely to be the call center representative, user experience designer or home care attendant of today.

Likewise, since the beginning of the 20th Century, the work of artists has increasingly shifted from the creation of hand-wrought, mimetic likenesses to the engagement of knowledge and ideas. This shift does not preclude traditional hand-skills and mastery of materials, but it changes their relationship with art objects and production. In “Thinking With our Hands” we draw on an expanded notion of craft: how conceptualization can be craft, and how doing and learning are forever linked.

Artists in “Thinking With our Hands” make in the service of ideas and use ideas in the service of making. Additionally as Glenn Adamson notes, “You can think very effectively in a manner that is non-linguistic. Conventionally we say “You think with your hands." That’s not what’s going on… you discover things with your hands and then your whole brain gets involved in that process of discovery. So your hands are a way of gathering information and then testing it…

Sirin Nagano’s three mirrors create visual effects that embody a psychological transformation realized through the repetitive task of etching as it transforms mind and materials. Similarly, Hovey Brock regards his paintings as records of his own consciousness playing out as the recursive process of building a surface creates the work. In contrast, Katherine Verdickt’s still-lives render disposable objects of contemporary life in the vernacular of the Dutch Masters.

Jacob William’s ceramic sculptures are simultaneously painterly and architectonic while Fiorella Gonzales-Vigil’s digitally embroidered bruises become both room-dividers and “the dirty laundry of domestic violence hung out to dry.” Donna Cleary’s multimedia installation engages concepts of labor, gender and desire, questioning perceived boundaries between instinct and cultural construct and reclaiming the power of the domestic space. Dan Allegrucci’s biomorphic, optical wall-sculptures perform the inextricable connection between the body and the eye while Brandi Martin’s wood blocks consider craft as cognition.

Chang Shen Tan’s sculptures transform found objects to elicit an appreciation of the aesthetics of the utilitarian objects while Christy Bremer’s glittered and beaded cigarettes draw a relationship among meticulous labor, pleasure, and addiction. Alex Hammond’s multimedia installation speaks to the complicated correspondence between labor, commodities and spirituality in American culture while Quinn Duke’s performances engage craft through the ritual of duration and repetition. Finally, the titling for our show was created by Artist George Pfau and Poet Tom Comitta, creators of Blabberlab, an App they designed to bring hand illustration and the body into letterforms and word-play into the realm of social media.

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Saturday, April 16: Plantopia

rabbitholeprojects — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:52:08 +0000

Plantopia

Ava & Teo (Avrora and Teodora Choolfaian) invite you to their art exhibit reception at Rabbithole Studios in Dumbo, Brooklyn on April 16th from 3pm to 9pm.

The presented paintings and installation explore my relationships with my two daughters, plants and food and offer thoughts on slavery. After becoming a mother, it became impossible to create without the direct involvement of my now 4 year old daughter. There wasn't a single thing that I created that wasn't in some way altered or affected by her.

I recently delved into the subject of sugar and in general plants that feed us. Refined sugar is the main contested object in my daily relationship with my older daughter. Used for bribery, rewarding and simple pleasure, refined sugar as an ingredient in chocolate that has come to rule my life. My research into it led me to the dark past of slavery and to Darwin's life and work. Darwin, as argued in a new book called "Darwin's sacred cause" came up with his theory of evolution because he was raised to hate and passionately hated slavery as a young man. Confronted by a scientific world in which racism was being proven by scientists all around him who championed phrenology, the 21 year old left all comfort and home and embarked on a journey that will ultimately deliver to us his revolutionary science that proved that there is no difference in the capacities of black and white men and women.

Could it be that even now to this day, the profound effects of slavery's dark aura rule our life as they deliver to us the most benign daily stimulant- sugar- with all the highs and lows and health risks that come with its consumption?

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Thursday, April 14: Multiples of 30

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:12:00 +0000

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Sunday, April 10: Diana Teeter 365 day project

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:45:33 +0000

In April of last year Diana Teeter presented herself with a challenge: paint one 4" x 4" painting every day for 365 days, no excuses allowed. Inspired by artists - such as Lorraine Loots' Paintings for Ants - progress their art skills rapidly by doing this, She wanted to see what would happen if she spent just one hour or so a day to polish her craft. Now almost 365 days later she has painted through good days and bad, illness and joy. Diana painted foods that she loves, cute animals, and historic happenings throughout the year. Not only have her skills as an artist improved greatly, but she also saw a change in how she feels - finding the courage to follow her dream to be an artist full time.

On April 10th, from 7pm-9pm Join to celebrate the culmination of Diana's project with a one night viewing and sale of the work. All of the work from the 365 day project will be available for $50 a painting. The viewing is free and open to the public.

Diana Teeter is an artist living and working in Queens, New York; she received her MFA from Pratt Institute and my BFA from The College For Creative Studies in Detroit; her work has been shown in numerous group shows in New York, the greater US, and abroad; and She's been the featured artist at P.S. 122, The Paula Barr Gallery Chelsea, and Hygienic Gallery of New London.

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Thursday, April 7: Serendipia

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:44:41 +0000

Serendipia
Thursday, April 7, 2016 from 7pm to 11pm.
A group show with Judith Samper, María Providencia Casanovas, Andrés Álvarez and Lorenzo Sanjuán. Music by Darko Saric, José Callén and LRD.

http://creaddictive.com/serendipia-at-rabbit-hole/

Up to what point can we continue to believe in happenstance, coincidence, Lautréamont’s “chance meeting…of a sewing machine and an umbrella,” or the accident in an art gallery? Under the glow of the April moon, in the cinematic shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, Alice’s Rabbit Hole opens, we descend into it, and serendipity is revealed: sensual princesses in watercolor nightmares, empty planets without their little princes, absences captured on film, sheets in disarray, reflections on depth and dimension depicted through the caress of a brush on the grain of wood. Four disparate artists come together under the bridge. Shall we accept, as Friedrich Schiller declared, that “there is no such thing as chance, and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny,” or shall we call it Serendipity?

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Sunday, April 3: Artificial Art

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:44:00 +0000

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Friday, April 1: Svetlana Jovanovic's WAITING

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:45:35 +0000

Image Credit: Svetlana Jovanovic. Letting Go. 2015. Cprint. 20x30 inches

Brooklyn, NY – Svetlana Jovanovic, an international photographer renown for her psychological and uncanny interpretation of female identity, will participate in a onenight photography exhibition curated by The Espejo Organization for the Arts in Brooklyn. A celebrated SerbianDutch photographer who has worked with the United Nations and completed art projects around the world, Svetlana Jovanovic has been published by Vogue Italia, New York Arts Magazine, Beautiful Decay and many other art publications. 2 Based in Bushwick, The Espejo Organization for the Arts is an arts management organization committed to support and promote the artistic endeavors of midcareer and emerging international artists and creatives.
“Svetlana is one of the talents that we are honored to represent. Her unique exploration of issues on female identity through fashion photography conventions is extraordinary.” said Kika Espejo, founder and director of the the organization. “Svetlana’s work provokes unease and ambiguity, encouraging the viewer to recognize their own objectifying practices and expectations of the female body”. The Rabbithole Projects Gallery, an art space located on the waterfront of the Dumbo Arts District in Brooklyn, will host Jovanovic’s Waiting exhibition. “As a contemporary art space we pride ourselves on exposing the work of diverse NewYork based artists. We are incredibly excited to host such an intriguing photographer,” said Shawn Lyons, Owner of Rabbithole Projects. “Our goal is to provide the space and community access for these talented artists to share their dreams, visions, and creations with inspired attendees. Jovanovic’s Waiting exhibition will be an unforgettable night.”

Waiting will take place from 7:30PM to 10:30PM, Friday, April 1 st at the Rabbithole Projects Gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. For further press information and images, please contact: Kika Espejo | The Espejo Organization for the Arts | hello@eoarts.com | (347) 484 6212 Svetlana Jovanovic | www.svetlanajovanovic.com | info@svetlanajovanovic.com

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