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Image : Armand Agresti, Howard Beach, NY, 1955.Gelatin silver print .20 x 16 inches

CLAMPART, New York

What I did on my summer vacation...

Autobiographical photography and the snapshot aesthetic," including artworks by Larry Clark, Armand Agresti, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Walter Pfeiffer, Michael Meads, Wolfgang Tillmans, Richard Billingham, JoJo Whilden, Michael Schmelling, Disco, and Ryan McGinley.

The energy, spontaneity, and immediacy of the snapshot have long been embraced by photographers. The advent of small, handheld, 35mm cameras inspired the production of grainy, blurred images characterized by tilted horizons and erratic framing that aptly seemed to represent the speed and chaos of modern life. While many artists' work can be lumped into the broad category of the "snapshot aesthetic," it was not until the 1960s that a distinctive new style of subjective documentary photography began to emerge. Most notably, Larry Clark's searingly personal photographs of his drug-shooting peers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, first published in book format in 1971, have now come to be regarded as among the most influential photographic works of the last quarter of the 20th century, setting the stage for later diaristic projects by the likes of Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, and most recently, Ryan McGinley. Through the presentation of photographs by both familiar and lesser known artists of the last several decades, ClampArt's exhibition traces this stylistic and conceptual lineage.

COHAN AND LESLIE, New York

Minets À Polis/Minneapolis

"Minets À Polis” an exhibition including work by Rob Fischer, Chris Larson, Todd Norsten, David Rathman, Alec Soth and Aaron Spangler. The artists, all Minneapolis-based or born, offer a provocative critique of a specific American mythology that is firmly rooted in the middle and upper-midwestern part of the country. Minneapolis, which has emerged as one of the most compelling and diverse art-making centers, sits at a particularly observant vantage point onto the heartland’s changing psychic terrain.

Image : Dave Rathman, When it Reigns, it Pours, 2005. Watercolor on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York

This Show is Ribbed For Her Pleasure : Keith Talent meets Cynthia Broan

This group exhibition, composed of 20 British artists, is curated by Andrew Clarkin and Simon Pittuck, the Directors of Keith Talent Gallery in East London.
The artists include: Sarah Bednarek, Gordon Dalton, Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Jack Duplock, Howard Dyke, Adam Gillam, Rob Holyhead, Vanessa Jackson, Dick Jewell, Bob Matthews, Max Mosscrop, Oran O’Reilly, Paul Peden, Clunie Reid, Danny Rolph, David Smith, Melanie Stidolph, Matt Wooding and Chris Wraith.

The show’s title, coming from a composite drawing by Clunie Reid, This Drawing is Ribbed For Her Pleasure, takes usage of despondent conceptual processes that contradict the summation of the viewers expectancy. From the puerile to high-mindedness, the works of various media, descend and ascend heights of gravitas. One work using conceptual additions may be negated by its neighbor or add an involuntary glance to the viewer. Using modes of collage and montage made with contrite materials and constraining ideals, the visual salad bar is open.

Image : Johannes Vanderbeek, Burning at the Stake, 2005. wax and human hair

Image : Valentina Loi , Les Amants, 3:00 min, DV NTSC, color, stereo, 2003

Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn

video:series : curated by Madeleine Gallagher and Bettina Johae

A group exhibition of video works by 62 artists compiled from an open call under the following topics: aesthetic:politics, i:me:we:us:them, painterly:dispositions, simple:things, sound:bites, strange:brew and urban:suburban.

Each category, featuring 8 - 14 artists, will be projected in the main gallery space on a specific day of the exhibition. All seven screenings will be available for viewers to peruse throughout the entire exhibition on individual monitors.

Including : Rob Carter,  Priyanka Dasgupta , Claudia Joskowicz , Sujin Lee, Valentina Loi, Stephen B. Nguyen, Sharon Paz, Catherine Ross, Elisabeth Smolarz, Jason Varone & Anabela Zigova

Haunch of Venison, London

CHANGES OF MIND: TRANSFORMATION AND BELIEF

Changes of Mind is a group show that brings together works in a range of media that explore concepts of belief and transformation. The artists presenting work in the exhibition come from diverse cultural backgrounds and are at different stages of their careers – from emerging to internationally acclaimed. They include Nathan Coley, Roberto Cuoghi, Douglas Gordon, Mariko Mori, Olaf Nicolai, Pietro Roccasalva, Magda Tothova and Bill Viola. The majority of the works are on show in London for the first time.

The idea of spiritual or intellectual transformation links the works in Changes of Mind. Frequently drawing on their own cultural and individual histories, each of the artists examines how people, whether individually or en masse, come to terms with their own identity and changes in their lives. What emerges are contemporary perceptions of who we are and how we cope, whether rooted in politics, history, or more personally in discontentment, angst or inner growth – to varying degrees of positive or negative effect. At the crux of all of the works is the notion of belief – tangible or intangible – and the power of the mind to conjure a constantly shifting image of self.

Image : Magda Tothova, Lenin and the Maiden, 2003. Video, single screen monitor.

Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn

NO APOLOGY FOR BREATHING, organized by Matthew Lusk

Caroline Allison, Alyse Emdur, Valerie Hegarty, Lara Kohl, Matthew Lusk, Sophia Naess, Lucy Raven, Aaron Wexler, Seth Cameron, Lawrence Gipe, David Harrison Horton, Julian LaVerdiere, Vincent Mazeau, Rachel Owens, James Merle Thomas, Letha Wilson

Matthew Lusk, the show's organizer, has completely rebuilt the gallery space. Visitors are greeted by a peg-board model of the crenellated facade of Williamsburg's McCarren Park Pool, an imposing structure in the original, now dilapidated, which is several hundred yards down the street.

A 1930s loading dock, rendered in cement, takes over a chunk of the gallery and must be climbed if one wishes to enter the rear gallery, which has been made over into the dark interior of a Depression era worker's shack, such as one might have seen documented in photographs.

Lusk's architectural elements are the scaffolding onto which the diverse creations of the other fifteen artists are arranged.

Mel Bochner, Monica Bonvicini, Matthew Brannon, Slater Bradley, Peter Coffin, Angus Fairhurst, Hans-Peter Feldmann, FOS, Tue Greenfort, Mauricio Guillen, Barnaby Hosking, Marine Hugonnier, Mustafa Hulusi, Ryan McGinness, Damien Roach, Markus Schinwald, Gregor Schneider, Haim Steinbach, Richard Wathen


The title takes inspiration from the classic sequence in the Marx Brother’s emblematic film Duck Soup (1933). The celebrated comedy scene of lyrical and physical pantomime shows Harpo, dressed in the same nightshirt as Groucho, pretending to be his mirror image while he plays back every gesture, which gets wilder and funnier.

Threshold satirises the absurd scenario proposed by an exhibition that is repeated twice giving the “impression of” itself. Most of the works in the exhibition appear to match another, casting a gap between objects, persons and moments, between their appearances and definitions. By breaking the rules of imitation, the selection of works in the exhibition mimics the shadow-self that obsesses Doppelgangers, the sense of disorientation that Groucho experiences when he sees himself duplicated, thus corrupting the notion of perfectly-timed reflection that leaves the viewer in a limbo of perplexity.

Image : Markus Schinwald, Contortionist ( Daniela), 2005, Lamda print, 100 x 160 cm

Images : Maira Kalman : Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, 2005 and Sieze the Day, 2005. Both pieces - embroidery on cotton, 13.5 x 11.5 inches

Saul Gallery, New York

WORDPLAY : Curated by Tamar Cohen

The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our summer group exhibition WORDPLAY. The curator, Tamar Cohen, has assembled a collection of recent work created by twenty three well known and emerging artists. This group of work, executed in a range of mediums and materials, celebrates the diversity of letter forms, words and text as a visual expression in contemporary art.


There are myriad sources of typographic and textual inspiration represented by the artists in WORDPLAY. There are found moments as seen in the photographs of Jeff Brouws and Orit Raff, as well as quotes and expressions used by Maira Kalman in her text and image embroideries, Shannon Ebner in her photograph, Joe Amrhein in his glass sign painting, Bill Rowe in his neon sculpture, Steve Powers in his aluminum supergraphic signs and Beth Campbell in her drawing. Kate Shepherd, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Abelardo Morell and Meena Park focus on the formal purity of the letter form in a range of mediums from painting and photography to collage. Literary texts form the basis of both Nicholas Knight's diagramed sentences and Steven Roden's witty pencil drawings. Mel Bochner cleverly uses word synonyms in his monoprint and Vik Muniz employs the letters of his name to create his self portrait. Tao Rey uses his own graffiti style handwriting on a sculptural street sign. Also included are the colored pencil drawings of Edward Fella, well known in the world of graphic design. Other artists included are Matthew Brannon, Graham Gillmore, Priscilla Monge, Larry Mullins and Jack Pierson

sixtyseven, New York

SASQUATCH SOCIETY

Jesse Bercowetz & Matt Bua, Chris Bors, Peter Caine, Eun Young Choi, eteam, Matthew Fisher, Aurélie Fourrier, Helena Fredriksson, Robert Grunder, Craig Hein, Ijan Hilaire, I-Manifest, Ketta Ioannidou, John Jodzio, Chris Kannen, Seth Kirby, Emily Lambert, Franziska Lamprecht, Stephen Lipuma, LoVid, Tony Luib, Julie Anne Mann, Tricia McLaughlin, Nicholas Parisi, William Powhida, Troy Richards, Michael X. Rose, Anke Sievers, Mike Skinner, Jennifer Sullivan, Jeremiah Teipen, Megan Whitmarsh and More...

The following excerpt is taken from The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization website:

“For more than 400 years people have reported seeing large, hair-covered, man-like animals in the wilderness areas of North America. Sightings of these animals continue today. These reports are often made by people of unimpeachable character."

 

Image : DR. LAKRA , Novia , 2003. Paint on vintage magazine page . 20 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches paper . 51.4 x 36.8 cm

Zwirner & Wirth, New York

Girls on Film - Curated by Kristine Bell

Girls on Film features a selection of established and emerging artists whose work appropriates images of women taken from a variety of pop-cultural sources. Exploring society’s long-running obsession with images distributed through magazines, advertisements, and the cinema, the works in this exhibition depict, manipulate, and examine three historical female archetypes: the starlet, the pin-up, and the fashion model. The artists included in Girls on Film uniquely deconstruct or elaborate upon many of the cultural mythologies at the heart of our continued fascination with images of women found in the popular media. As a starting point for the exhibition, we will present the painting “L’élégante” by Francis Picabia from 1942-43. During World War II, Picabia painted images of women he found in popular gentlemen’s magazines such as “Mon Paris”. More than fifty years later, Picabia’s influence on contemporary art-making, in particular figurative art, is even more apparent.

 A-Z Summer Group Shows

31 Grand, Brooklyn : DEAD KIDS DO NOTHING : 7 July to 7 Aug 2005

4- F, Los Angeles : Genderosity : 16 July to 20 Aug 2005

AG Gallery, Brooklyn : Summer Project_Japanese Artists From Japan : 22 July to 25 Aug 2005

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London : TAKE IT FURTHUR! - CURATED BY GYONATA BONVICINI : 9 July to 13 Aug 2005

Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK : Day-to-Day Data : 20 July to 7 Sept 2005

BELLWETHER, New York : IDOLS OF PERVERSITY : 30 June to 6 Aug 2005

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles : Think Blue : 16 July to 20 Aug 2005

Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago : Summer Group Show : 29 July to 3 Sept 2005

BRONXMUSEUM, New York : AIM 25 : 30 June to 2 Oct 2005

Bucket Rider, Chicago : Thank You for the Days : 15 July to 27 Aug 2005

Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf : Sommergaeste 2005 : 2 July to 20 Aug 2005

Capsule, New York : The Summer Show Proposal Show : 25 June to 13 Aug 2005

Caren Golden Fine Art, New York  : Hot Town - Summer in the City : 1 July to 5 Aug 2005

Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco : Social Insecurity: The Future Ain’t What it Used to be : 29 July to 3 Sept 2005

Chambers Fine Art, New York : Body and Objects: Works by Chu Yun, Jiang Zhi, Tang Yi - curated by Pi Li : 21 July to 2 Sept 2005

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK : Peripheral Visions : 16 July to 21 Aug 2005

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York : A Summer Group : 30 June to 19 Aug 2005

cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles : Paper Beats Rock : 9 July to 14 Aug 2005

d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn : Nimbi and Penumbrae : 23 July to 18 Sept 2005

Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York : Summer Salon ‘05 : 7 July to 12 Aug 2005

David Zwirner, New York : Early Work : 29 June to 5 Aug 2005

DCKT Contemporary, New York : In My Empire Life is Sweet - Curated Tyler Green. : 24 June to 12 Aug 2005

DFN GALLERY, New York : Animal Tales : 22 June to 2 Sept 2005

Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York : Sugartown - an exhibition in two parts : 24 June to 6 Aug 2005

Embassy : Edinburgh Annuale August 05

emilyTsingou gallery, London : a violet from mother's grave : 24 June to 5 Aug 2005

EXIT ART, New York : HOMOMUSEUM : 21 May to 19 Aug 2005

FIEBACH & MINNINGER, Cologne : „crash“ : 2 July to 13 Aug 2005

Flaca, London : A summer event : 22 July to 24 Aug 2005

Flowers Central, London : PAINTINGS FROM THE 90s : 3 Aug to 27 Aug 2005

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York : GREY FLAGS : 1 July to 12 Aug 2005

Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana : NU SKOOL : Curators: Alenka Gregoriè, Nataša Petrešin, Barbara Predan : 2 Aug to 21 Aug 2005

Gallery 102 : Arty : Eng-er-land, London : 5 Aug to 27 Aug 2005

Gimpel Fils, London : PRESENCE : 7 July to 3 Sept 2005

Gladstone Gallery, New York : Bridge Freezes Before Road : 24 June to 19 Aug 2005

Groeflin Maag galerie, Basel : ONEYMOON WITH ROMEO - curated by Holly Coulis : 22 July to 27 Aug 2005

Horticultural Society of New York : BREAKING GROUND - A summer show of emerging artists : 21 June to 9 Sept 2005

House Gallery, London : Penthouse : Flash in the Pan’ : 25 July to 2 Aug 2005

Invisible NYC : DIY: The Aesthetics of Life - in collaboration with Metro Color Collision : Aug to 3 Sept 2005

JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, New York : Living for the City : 30 June to 5 Aug 2005

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York : Capturing a Moment-ito : 5 June to 20 Aug 2005

JEFF BAILEY GALLERY, New York : FRESH DIRECT : 29 June to 5 Aug 2005

JET Artworks, Washington, DC : Matthew Arnold, Knut Hybinette and Emily Noelle Lambert :1 July to 13 Aug 2005

KASHYA HILDEBRAND NY : SPECTRUM : 9 June to 15 Aug 2005

KASHYA HILDEBRAND ZURICH : SOLARIS : 24 June to 13 Aug 2005

Kirkhoff, Copenhagen : summer group show : 6 Aug to 26 Aug 2005

Klagsbrun, New York : Walls 'n Things : 24 June to 5 Aug 2005

KONSORTIUM, Dusseldorf : AUTOPILOT : 3 July to 18 Sept 2005

Leslie Tonkonow, New York : PAIRS, GROUPS, AND GRIDS : 30 June to 12 Aug 2005

Lisson Gallery, London : I REALLY SHOULD... : 3 July to 27 Aug 2005

Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC : Alphabet and A to Z : 5 Aug to 28 Aug 2005

M.Y.ART PROSPECTS, New York : Gallery Collection Summer 2005 : 16 July to 13 Aug 2005

MARGARET THATCHER PROJECTS, New York : SUMMER SENSATION : 7 July to 5 Aug 2005

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York : Little Odysseys - curator Nicelle Beauchene : 22 July to 26 Aug 2005

MARK MOORE GALLERY, Los Angeles : Summer Pleasures : 9 July to 20 Aug 2005

MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam : Made in Rotterdam : Tiina Mielonen / Gerco de Ruijter : 1 July to 8 Aug 2005

Modern Art, London : Group Show : 8 July to 7 Aug 2005

moniquemeloche, Chicago : Girls of Summer: Koichi Enomoto, Ruby Osorio, John Sparagana : 8 July to 27 Aug 2005

MOT, London : Tall Stories : Simon Patterson, David Batchelor, Matt Golden - Curated by Rajesh Punj : 3 Aug 2005 to 17 Sept 2005

mullerdechiara, Berlin : Markus Keibel + Harald Hermann : 15 July to 10 Sept 2005

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam : PROJECT ROTTERDAM : 2 July to 18 Sept 2005

Orange Hill Art, Atlanta, GA : Step Right Up! Sideshow Wonders and Human Curiosities : 28 July to 1 Sept 2005

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY, San Francisco : that which is built - Isidro Blasco, Christian Nguyen, Renee Lotenero : 7 July to 20 Aug 2005

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York : CROSS SECTION : 7 July to 19 Aug 2005

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles : Several Artists Consider Books : 9 July to 6 Aug 2005

PLUSH, Dallas : forces of evil in a bozo nightmare : 20 Aug to 17 Sept 2005

Riflemaker, London : LONDON ATTRACTIONS : 1 July to 3 Sept 2005

Rokeby, London : Luke Oxley & Naglaa Walker :13 July to 16 Aug 2005

Samson Projects, Boston, MA : op...ish : 5 June to 5 Aug 2005

SFEIR-SEMLER Beirut : Flight 405 : 10 Apr to 13 Aug 2005

SFEIR-SEMLER Hamburg : Pollenflug : 4 June to 20 Aug 2005

SOPRO Projecto de Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon : Acervo : Filipe Marques, Tânia Marques, Isabel Favila e Isaque Pinheiro : 1 Aug to 27 Aug 2005

Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York : RED WHITE BLUE - Curated by Erin Krause, Sadie Laska, Mark Orange : 7 July to 13 Aug 2005

Studio Voltaire, London : SV05 || Lali Chetwynd: The Walk to Dover : 5 Aug to 11 Sept 2005

Sprüth Magers Lee, London : 7 : 3 Aug to 30 Sept 2005

The Approach, London : ‘SPLIT’ : 3 July to 7 Aug 2005

Thomas Dane, London : Translations - Creative Copying and Originality : 14 July to 9 Sept 2005

Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen : Hit you with a flower : 30 June to 30 Aug 2005

Union, London : Julia Schmidt, Oliver Kossack, Julius Popp. Rigo Schmidt : 13 July to 24 Sept 2005

VAN DE WEGHE FINE ART, New York : ACCROCHAGE : 30 June to 17 Sept 2005

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH : Vanishing Point : 21 May to 14 Aug 2005

WHITE BOX, New York : NIGHTSHIFT : THE WEST CHELSEA ART HANDLER/ARTIST ASSISTANT/GALLERY ASSISTANT EXHIBITION : 26 July to 9 Aug 2005

Wilkinson Gallery, London : Willing Suspension of Disbelief : 21 July to 14 Aug 2005

For an A - Z of all current listings, please click "Exhibitor" then "search" on any re-title page.

Best wishes for the summer break! - from everyone at re-title.com