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What Do You Mean?

by Yaelle Amir
Mathew Cerletty, Shannon Ebner, Brendan Fowler, Karl Holmqvist, Christopher Knowles, Dave McKenzie, Emily Roysdon, Discoteca Flaming Star, CODY TREPTE at Eleven Rivington (Rivington Street) July 9th, 2009 - August 14th, 2009
Posted 7/24/09

Character Generator, a group exhibition curated by The Kitchen’s Matthew Lyons, is a straightforward overview of connotations that text-based artworks may evoke. Employing language as raw substance, the included works play off deliberate omissions, unusual juxtapositions, and systematic restructuring. Several of the participating artists create within the gap that forms when words are removed. Shannon Ebner’s untitled black and white pho... [more]

Smoke in the Kitchen

by Yaelle Amir
Julieta Aranda, Joan Banach, Sean Dack, Jonah Freeman, Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Simone Leigh, Ann Lislegaard, Adam Pendleton, Mungo Thomsonn, William Villalongo at The Kitchen June 18th, 2008 - August 1st, 2008
Posted 7/15/08

Each artist in the group exhibition The Future As Disruption has built upon a different facet of a science fiction source – be it imagery, film, or literature – in turn developing works that suggest new theories and myths. In utilizing the various components of these sources—they propose an alternate reality, one superior to our own.The majority of the works are based on anxieties pertaining to contemporary social and physical predicaments. In A Machine of Perpetual Possibil... [more]