Mixed Greens

Trinity: Neo…nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That’s why it’s going to work.
              The Matrix (1999)
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OPENS:  July 9 12:00-6:00 PM

Mixed Greens is thrilled to present X, our tenth anniversary exhibition. Back in 1999, Paige West (our Neo) founded Mixed Greens as a place to support emerging artists. What began as an online-only entity has, over the last decade, organically morphed into a traditional gallery. We’ve pioneered gallery e-commerce, traveled shows, organized panel discussions, hosted events, and produced educational catalogs in an effort to push the boundaries of what a gallery can do.

We currently represent 22 artists, but over the years, we’ve worked with over 100 artists at varying stages in their careers, and (call us crazy!) we’ve decided to put them all in one BIG anniversary show. With X, we present a large selection of the many amazing artists with whom we’ve been privileged to work. Their techniques and subject matter vary widely, but all of these artists captured our attention either by their extraordinary use of materials or through their deep examination and investigation of their subjects. There is no theme uniting the 84 participating artists—the only common denominator is Mixed Greens. Some might call it narcissistic. Others nostalgic. We consider it to be a celebration of some of the best artists working today.

Participating Artists
Noriko Ambe, Chris Ballantyne, Luke Barber-Smith, Rachel Beach, Sonya Blesofsky, Rob Carter, Zoë Charlton & Rick Delaney, Soyeon Cho, Jinkee Choi, Rob Conger, David Coyle, Lisa Coulson, Shoshana Dentz, Andy Diaz Hope, Thomas Doyle, Alessandra Exposito, Ken Fandell, Howard Fonda, Linda Ganjian, Tamara Gayer, Susan Graham, Susan Hamburger, Kimberley Hart, Krista Hoefle, James Hyde, Brian Jobe, Sarah Kabot, Marguerite Kahrl, Kim Keever, Sun K. Kwak, Jim Lee, Drew Leshko, Zane Lewis, Joan Linder, Holly Lynton, Giles Lyon, Virgil Marti, Yumiko Matsui, Christina Mazzalupo, Ryan McGinness, Adia Millett, Mark Mulroney, Russell Nachman, Rob Nadeau, Frank Olive, Coke Wisdom O’Neal, Soner Ön, Stas Orlovski, Eric Payson, Mia Pearlman, Paul Plante, Anne Polashenski, Don Porcella, Amy Pryor, David Rathman, Trevor Reese, Andrew Scott Ross, Laurel Roth, Kammy Roulner, AA Rucci, Carol Salmanson, Jason Severs, Rudy Shepherd, Jean Shin, Alyson Shotz, John Slaby, Joseph Smolinski, Zoe Sonenberg, Amy Stein, Lee Stoetzel, Julianne Swartz, Ann Tarantino, Craig Taylor, Dannielle Tegeder, Mary Temple, Austin Thomas, Leah Tinari, Kako Ueda, Carlo Vialu, Connie Walsh, Daniel Wiener, Dina Weiss, Dirk Westphal

The Young And The Restless Part II

  Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 7th 6-8:00pm

“”Freed from the limitation of medium or methodology, open to exploration and experimentation, unafraid to make a statement, these are six artists on the move. Their art–experiential, open-ended and engaged–beckons, inviting us to interact and react, to contemplate and investigate these embodied narratives and the possibilities of vision”

Sue Canning, from her introduction to “The Young and The Restless.”

Michael Steinberg Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of
The Young and the Restless, Part II, an exhibition of 6 emerging artists based in New York. The show questions the contemporary concepts of medium and artistic practice: by turns each of these artists ponder and re-work the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.

Building on personal experience–the artists hail from diverse ethnic backgrounds including Grenada, Brazil, and Murmansk, as well as native New Yorkers, and deal with issues equally as diverse–from colonialism, genocide and cultural erasure to aesthetic questions of color, composition and the nature of light. Christian Weikop, in his April 4 review of the Gordon Parks exhibit in the Saatchi Online Magazine, likened the 6 artists to the artists of the early 20th century Brucke movement, in their earthiness, dynamism and dedication to Utopian artistic goals.

“Shervone Neckles, Tommy Mintz, Clara Fialho, Nikita Pashenkov and Elise Co, and Will Corwin, have been showing together for the past two years–spring 2007 at The Flushing Town hall (a Smithsonian Affiliate), to great local acclaim, The Pickled Art Centre in Beijing, may 2008, this past fall-spring, at Nancy Walker’s Gallerythe, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and the Gordon Parks Gallery in the Bronx, from March through May, 2009.

Shervone Neckles is the recipient of several Joan Mitchell grants and a Skowhegan Fellowship. She explores the African American Experience, as well as issues of Carribean colonialism through printing techniques as wide-ranging as printing on wall-paper and fabric to printing on bread. Her wall-hangings, quilts and hand-made books, redefine the cultural significance of traditional craft forms, especially when recast through the eyes of the opressed. Tommy Mintz teaches photography at Queensborough and Kingsborough Colleges. His digital/photographic “Cheap Shots” are
both a rejection of the carefully staged high-production images of Joel Sternfeld, with whom he studied at Sarah Lawrence, but an acknowledgement of the need for contemporary photographers to develop a singular and recognizeable voice, often through digital modification.

Clara Fialho graduated from Cooper Union, but Grew up in Brazil. Her lyrical and abstract paintings transform the idea of pattern and texture, and though seemingly very beautiful and decorative, have a darker, psychological, and critical content. Elise Co and Nik Pashenkov are cofounders of the technology and design company Aeolab. Elise and Nik met at the MIT Media Lab while stuying there under John Maeda, and have been artists-in-residence in places as varied as the Anderson Ranch Art Center and Eyebeam Atelier in NYC. They create bottles of light with color-manipulated LEDS, and drawings that glow and move, using industrial paints and computer circuitry.

Will Corwin is a regular at alternative art spaces such as chashama, the LaMama Gallery in New York, and Gallery Aferro in Newark, and has shown in Beijing and Taipei on a grant from the State department as part of the President’s Initiative for Global Cultural Exchange. His installation/paintings deal with the connections between the desecration of art objects and the disciplines of art/architecture and archeology.

DUMBO Arts Center

 
Structured Simplicity
Curated by Felicity Hogan

Exhibition Ends: August 9, 2009
Curator and Artists’ talk: Thursday, July 9, 7-8 PM

Mai Braun
Hilary Harnischfeger
Elana Herzog
Fabienne Lasserre
Amy Yoes

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Amy Yoes, Modification and Collapse
Image courtesy of the artist.

 

Structured Simplicity presents a group of artists, Mai Braun, Hilary Harnischfeger, Elana Herzog, Fabienne Lasserre, and Amy Yoes, who work in sculpture and site-specific installation. From a formalist and abstract perspective, the exhibition investigates aspects of simplicity, taking purification as a point of departure i.e. making things simpler through structure, be they confined or chaotic. In bringing this group together, the curator, Felicity Hogan, seeks to explore varying manifestations of this concept and how structures are formed and conveyed through diversity of approach and use of materials.

The exhibition debuts new site-specific works by Mai Braun, Elana Herzog and Amy Yoes as well as previously unseen new works by Fabienne Lasserre and Hilary Harnischfeger. Fabienne Lasserre’s humorously crafted and sensual sculptures, striking a bold intelligent balance between the logical and illogical, are positioned alongside Mai Braun’s mischievously formed shredded NY Times-mâché piece: Your Emotions Make You a Monster. Mai Braun’s stacked cardboard boxes parallel and echo Amy Yoes’ mechanical hard-edged installation. Hilary Harnischfeger’s deftly sliced and angular sculptures complement Elana Herzog’s de-constructed garments and bed linens, patched aggressively with compulsively tacked staples. Additional connections will be reinforced through proximity. An influence of rudimentary materials is common to all artists with processes that revel in tension and release. In the art of Amy Yoes, Hilary Harnischfeger and Mai Braun, the subtle use of planes and angles form associations that display contrasting use of a comparable visual language. Manipulation and the distortion of architectural form further connect works by Amy Yoes and Elana Herzog.

Structured Simplicity was developed in response to the distinctive architecture and characteristics of the DAC gallery. While sculpture and installation are the primary focus, the exhibition also includes bas-reliefs by Hilary Harnischfeger and works on paper by Mai Braun as well as a new video by Amy Yoes created especially for Structured Simplicity.

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