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Exhibitions
Laurel Sparks
Twisted Sister 
2007 
acrylic marble dust, glitter, paper mache on canvas 
67 x 61
Rachel Bers
Carniverous Mask
2010
Colored vellum on paper
30" x 23"
Rachel Bers
Flora
2010
colored vellum on wood
36" x 48"
Rafael Santiago
Untitled
2010-2011
Fuji Deep Matt C-Print
20" x 30"
Hannah Hughes
Olletarabaerthumaraling 1
2011
Paper collage, unframed
Dimensions Variable
Hannah Hughes
Olletarabaerthumaraling 2
2011
Paper collage, unframed
Dimensions Variable
Hannah Hughes
Olletarabaerthumaraling 3
2011
Paper collage, unframed
Dimensions Variable
Hannah Hughes
Olletarabaerthumaraling 4
2011
Paper collage, unframed
Dimensions Variable
Hannah Hughes
Olletarabaerthumaraling 5
2011
Paper collage, unframed
Dimensions Variable
Curu Necos-Bloice
Untitled Triptych
2009
Paper Collage, framed
16" x 20" each
Curu Necos-Bloice
Untitled
2009
Paper collage, framed
16" x 20"
Curu Necos-Bloice
Untitled
2009
Paper collage, framed
16" x 20"
Chris Warrington
Roberta Hope (the Loge)
2009-2011
Acrylic paint on canvas
22" x 28"
Chris Warrington
Poet II
2010
Ink and watercolor on paper
22" x 28"
Hannah Barrett
Grantchester Hattersly
2006
oil on canvas
16" x 12"
Andrew Gellatly
Untitled
2009
Paper, linen, wood, acrylic
2 parts
18" x 13" 1/2" each
Andrew Gellatly
Untitled
2010
Paper, linen, wood, acrylic
14" x 8" 1/2"
Andrew Gellatly
Untitled
2010
Paper, linen, wood, acrylic
14" x 8" 1/2"
Rik Nelson
Walleye
2011
Mixed Media (post-consumer recyclables)
10" x 28" x 1"
Rik Nelson
Small Chinook
2011
Mixed Media (post-consumer recyclables)
11" x 13" x 1"
Daniel Goldstein
Horizon 36
woodblock print collage
44" x 33"
Jonathan Podwil
112589 (trial)
2010
oil/linen
24" x36"
Jonathan Podwil
This Has Happened (Red Cage)
2010
oil/linen
11" x 14"
March Group Show: In Like a Lion
March 1, 2011 - April 1, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1, 6-8 PM

Hannah Barrett, Rachel Bers, Andrew Gellatly, Daniel Goldstein, Hannah Hughes, Curu Necos-Bloice, Rik Nelson, Jonathan Podwil, Rafael Santiago, Laurel Sparks and Chris Warrington

4 4 3  P A S is pleased to announce In Like a Lion, a new exhibition of works by eleven artists from across the United States, from San Francisco to Brooklyn.  
The artists represented address a diverse set of concerns that include abstraction, identity, mysticism, politics, history and the environment. With works that employ a variety of materials, including oil painting, collage, and mixed media, the exhibition brings together a broad range of visions  – real and imagined, quotidian and sublime.

Chris Warrington
Crying at the Sun
2010
Acrylic paint on canvas
22" x 28"
Chris Warrington
Happy to Have a Job
2010
Acrylic paint on canvas
44" x 56"
Chris Warrington
Judith (Strawberry, Sweater and Sword)
2010
Acrylic paint on canvas
30" x 40"
Chris Warrington
Untitled (Study for Happy to Have a Job)
2010
Ink and watercolor on paper
22" x 28"
Chris Warrington
Blanche Du Bois
2010
Ink and colored pencil on paper
60" x 86.5"
Chris Warrington
Liza as Judy
2010
Ink and colored pencil on paper
23" x 29"
Chris Warrington
Untitled (Life is a Banquet)
2010
Acrylic paint on paper
22" x 28"
Chris Warrington
Untitled (Madame Bovary)
2010
Acrylic paint on paper
22" x 28"
Chris Warrington: Lives of the Saints
January 18, 2011 - February 18, 2011

4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce Lives of the Saints, a new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Chris Warrington. In these works, all from 2010, Warrington culls together references from art, literature and entertainment, with an eye toward humor and pathos. These images of anthropomorphic figures call to mind Liza Minnelli and Blanche Du Bois, the films of Jacques Demy and the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder.  

About the artist: Chris Warrington attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied painting. He has been in several groups shows since graduating, including exhibitions at the Earl McGrath Gallery in New York, the William Shearburn Gallery in New Mexico, and at AR/GE Kunst in Bolzano, Italy. His work has been featured in the pages of D Magazine. He lives and works in New York, NY.

Jonathan Podwil
The American Soldier
2002
oil/linen
36" x 48"
Jonathan Podwil
LA Palms/Baghdad Palms
2003
oil/linen
10" x 24"
Jonathan Podwil
Don't Be an Insurgent (small)
2010
oil/linen
10" x 12"
Jonathan Podwil
Don't Be an Insurgent (large)
2010
oil/linen
36" x 42"
Jonathan Podwil
State of the Union Small
2011
oil/panel
11" x 14"
Jonathan Podwil
State of the Union (large)
2009
oil/linen
36" x 48"
Jonathan Podwil
Have a Nice Trip
2003
oil/linen
10" x 24"
Jonathan Podwil
Rommel's Funeral
2002
oil/linen
12' x 14"
Jonathan Podwil
Meeting, 1983
2011
oil/linen
12" x 14"
Jonathan Podwil
112263 #6
2005
oil/linen
20" x 30"
Jonathan Podwil
Toro
2009
oil/linen
20" x 30"
Jonathan Podwil
Untitled (D.A.F.)
2006
oil/linen
11" x 14"
Wein (Swechat) Airport December 2000
2004
oil/paper
11" x 15"
LA Palms
2009
oil/paper
11" x 13"
House with Palm
2008 
ink/paper
8" x 9.5"
Untitled (Red Baron)
2009
oil/paper
6.5" x 12"
Jonathan Podwil: The Golden Age of Cinema
Curated by Chris Warrington
April 7, 2011 – May 6, 2011
Reception for the artist: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 6-8 pm

4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce The Golden Age of Cinema, a new exhibition of paintings by Jonathan Podwil. Featuring works that span Podwil’s career, this show serves as a miniature retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre.  

Podwil employs film stills (from his own films, newsreels, and from such cinematic classics as Fassbinder’s The American Soldier) as the source material for his work. He uses these images to conjure ambiguous, sometimes ominous narratives in restrained yet sensuous paintings. With flickering brushwork and murky atmospherics suggesting both the tenebrism of 17th century painting and the dark allure of 20th century cinema, Podwil’s work investigates contemporary painting’s fascination with film.

Podwil has had solo shows at Plane Space and AU Base in New York City, and T19 in Vienna. He has participated in numerous group shows in the United States and abroad, including White Columns and Smack Mellon in New York City, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, and Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy. His short films have been screened at Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and White Box, New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  To see more of his work, please go to www.jonathanpodwil.com
Laurel Sparks: Against Nature
Curated by Chris Warrington
May 10, 2011 – June 3, 2011
Reception for the artist: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6-8 PM

 4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce Against Nature, an exhibition of large paintings by Laurel Sparks. Combining the ornate flatness of fin-de-siècle modernism with the gestural wildness of early Abstract Expressionism, Sparks uses theatrical iconography inspired by queer and psychedelic cinema, inventing an aesthetic lexicon akin to high femme drag.  

Androgynous iconoclasts, from Luisa Casati to Ziggy Stardust, act as muses in Sparks’ abstract portraits of glamor and decay. Alluding to these glamorous figures, Sparks overlays linear silhouettes of Venetian chandeliers and perverse Christmas trees with an ambidextrous blind contour drawing. Icons take shape and dissolve within a carnival of color, glitter, and bejeweled protrusions.

Intense gestures celebrate baroque forms of artifice: theatricality, costume, cosmetics, and persona. At the same time, raw emptiness contradicts hedonistic adornment. Within each work there is a painterly call and response between poured white marble dust, bare canvas and decorative pattern. The surfaces oscillate between elegance and vulgarity. Pleasure, elegy, and irreverence co-exist in Sparks’ paintings, like the complex character of the muses they invoke.

Sparks holds an MFA from Bard and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work was recently exhibited in the DeCordova Biennial (Lincoln, MA) and Dramatis Personae at Dodge Gallery (New York, NY). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.   To see more of her work, please go to www.laurelsparks.com

Princess Coo Coo
2007
acrylic, marble dust, paper mache, enamel, venetian glass, watercolor, marker, pigment, unpainted canvas
65" x 46"
Liber
2010
acrylic, marble dust, paper mache, silver enamel, small objects, marker, pigment, unpainted canvas
33" x 20"
Dani
2010
acrylic, marble dust, paper mache, silver enamel, small objects, marker, pigment, unpainted canvas
33" x 20"
Poltergeist
2005
acrylic, marble dust, paper mache, glitter on canvas
72" x 72"
Flaming Creature
2007 
acrylic, marble dust, paper mache, enamel, small objects, watercolor, marker, pigment, unpainted canvas
58" x 46"
Broken Witch
2005
acrylic, marble dust, glitter on canvas
50" x 34"
Crown of Creation
2008
acrylic, marble dust, glitter, paper mache, small objects, marker, pigment, unpainted canvas
60" x 45"
Apache Snow Queen
2010
mixed media collage on archival print paper, framed
19" x 13"
Pleasantville
2010
mixed media collage on archival print on paper, framed
19" x 13"
Sister Morphine
2010
mixed media collage on archival print on paper, framed
19" x 13"
A New Day										
2010
Oil on canvas
36” x 40”
No Worries										
2008
Oil on canvas
12” x 12”
Shake ‘Em Out of Their Shoes								 
2008
Oil on canvas
28” x 28”
Calm Wind										  
2007
Oil on canvas
22” x 22”
Sanctuary										 
2009
Oil on canvas
12” x 12”
Stand Up!										
2009
Oil on canvas
16” x 16”
Unspoken										
2009
Oil on Canvas
34” x 36”
Pinky											
2007
Oil on canvas
8” x 8”
Hero in Tomorrow									
2007
Oil on canvas
19” x 30”
Breezy Hill										
2010
Oil on canvas
34” x 36”
Blue Mountain										
2007
Oil on canvas
16” x 16”
Mushroom Fields									
2008
Oil on canvas
24” x 22”
Tapping										
2007
Oil on canvas
19” x 29”
Peggy Resnick: Recent Paintings
Curated by Chris Warrington
June 9, 2011 – July 8, 2011
Reception for the artist: Thursday, June 9 6-8 PM

4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce Peggy Resnick: Recent Paintings. Peggy Resnick's paintings are rigorous meditations on line and color. In some paintings, line acts as an armature for color. In others, color acts as a ground for dense networks of lines. The line is always strong, and color ranges from vibrant to earthy to a rich palette of grays. While the paintings may suggest images – textiles, landscapes, illuminated manuscripts – they remain entirely abstract. Free from the constraints of specificity, they invite the viewer to open-ended reading and contemplation.

Resnick holds a BA from Washington University, an MA from Teachers College Columbia University and a BFA from The Cooper Union. She has exhibited her work at Art in General (New York, NY) the Parrish Art Museum (Southhampton, NY), and the Silvermine Arts Guild (New Canaan, CT). She lives and works in New York, NY.
To see more of her work, please go to www.peggyresnick.com 

Michael Berryhill
Uggle Duggle
2011
Oil on linen
18” x 20”
Michael Berryhill
Mantis
2011
Oil on linen
18” x 20”
Nicholas Buffon
untitled (grey mass)
2008
ball point pen on paper
4 x 4 1/2 inches
Nicholas Buffon
Midnight Garden
2008
ball point pen on paper
3 7/8 x 4 1/16 inches
Juan-Carlos Castro
Untitled
2011
digital prints on vellum, tape in various widths and materials including clear plastic, black and white paper and aluminum; acrylic, sharpie pen
47.5”x45”
Shoshana Dentz
pile 8
2010
oil on canvas
18 x 18 inches
Shoshana Dentz
pile 7
2010
oil on canvas
18 x 18 inches
Cecilia Dougherty
Untitled (The Fourth Space)
Archival Inkjet Print No. 6
2010
24" x 36" 
1 of 1
Angela Dufresne
Audubon Cover of Albrecht Durer Bunny
2010
Oil on Panel
14” x 20”
Angela Dufresne
Dog on Porch with Girl on its’ Back
2010
Oil on panel
20” x 22”
Adriana Farmiga 
Tennis Balls
2010
Watercolor on Arches
22.5” x 30”
Adriana Farmiga 
HG-7
2011
archival C-print
16” x 20”
Katy Fischer
Domes
2010
cut paper and glue on paper
9.5 x 13"
Katy Fischer
17 Things
2010
gouache, cut paper, gold leaf, and glue on paper
13" x 17"
Angelina Gualdoni
Constructive Interference
2010
Oil and acrylic on canvas
20” x 18”
Angelina Gualdoni
Mise En Scene 
2009
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
24” x 20”
Michelle Handelman
Red Flutter, from the project Cannibal Garden
2000
digital c-print mounted into Plexiglas
40" x 40" ed. 1/5
Michelle Handelman
Twins Examining, from the project This Delicate Monster
2004
digital c-print mounted into plexiglas, 
20" x 16", ed. 3/5
Sue Havens
Pink Criss Cross
2007
Watercolor, paper,  archival glue
10.5” x12” x 2”

Sue Havens
Chunky Stripe
2010-11
Acrylic on plaster, acrylic medium, polystyrene
18” x 24” x 6”
Vera Iliatova
Untitled (Pink Light)
2009
Oil on canvas
12” x 12”
Jill Pangallo
footstand
2010
archival ink jet print
30" x 23"
Diana Puntar
My Madeleine.... Up in smoke
2010
beer cans, synthetic wood, paint
11 total, dimensions variable
Diana Puntar
My Madeleine.... Up in smoke
2010
beer can, synthetic wood, paint
Kanishka Raja
KR29
2011
Oil on prepared paper
22” x 60”
SKOTE
nightbird: OOH/COO
2011
Silkscreened Mirror; edition of 5
20” x 26”
Jane South
Rust Fragment
 2007
hand-cut & folded paper, ink & acrylic
18" x 16" x 12"
Jane South
Untitled
2011
hand-cut & folded paper, ink & acrylic
19" x 28" x 4"
Erica Svec
Untitled
2007
Gouache on paper
22.5x15
Erica Svec
Untitled
2007
Gouache on paper
22.5”x15”
Barbara Takenaga
Angel (Little Egypt), State I
2007
Lithograph
24 x 20 inches
Published by Shark's Ink, Colorado
Barbara Takenaga
Angel (Little Egypt), State II
2007
Lithograph
24 x 20 inches
Published by Shark's Ink, Colorado
Oliver Wasow
Duster
2007
20 x 16"
Color inkjet, 2/3
Oliver Wasow
Smoke and Wing
2007
20 x 16"
Color inkjet, 2/3
Shapeshifters
Curated by Laurel Sparks
July 14, 2011 - August 26, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 14, 6-8 pm

Michael Berryhill
Nicholas Buffon
Juan-Carlos Castro
Nicole Cherubini
Shoshana Dentz
Cecilia Dougherty
Angela Dufresne
Adriana Farmiga 
Katy Fischer
Angelina Gualdoni
Michelle Handelman
Sue Havens
Vera Iliatova
Jeanine Oleson
Jill Pangallo
Diana Puntar
Kanishka Raja
SKOTE 
Jane South
Erica Svec
Barbara Takenaga
Oliver Wasow


bespoke bathing costume

Sparks says this show features geniuses only!
Come one come all y'all to gawk at their works: 

whose stalagmites elude portrayal
but for the smudgen empyrean 
fibrous by seat of their cohort--
ashtray w/ suspenders unwrinkled 
a pile of glazier-thin feuilles fatales
flurry of homosocial g.w.ps

twins peer at the heart in thir pants
weeping fruitier and downreaching espalier
a nacorn an urn unhectorized
gutterclouds inform an architecture
its mouth a painted hare or rabbitt
atop an accretion of realnesses.

how do you value a painting? by its
pearlescent gummery centre. can
a beercan grow a thing. potteryhound 
helmet from hellsdeep chainworks the 
neolyth clawfoot cum eagle arm--
tender clips of the fan, snakely

beads reveal sculptoraly or by
erasure the ponderous red creature.

- Julian T. Brolaski
Rachel Bers
Fata Morgana
2010-2011
colored vellum on paper 
30” x 22” and 30” x 20”
Rachel Bers
Conjurer
2010
colored vellum on paper 
48” x 32”
Rachel Bers
Embodied Drawing 1
2008
vintage fabric, armature wire, wool
Rachel Bers
Embodied Drawing 2
2008
vintage fabric, armature wire, wool
Rachel Bers
Embodied Drawing 3 
2008
vintage fabric, armature wire, wool
Rachel Bers
Amphibious Creation Myth
2011
colored vellum on wood
48” x 36”
Rachel Bers
Encounter 1
2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9
Rachel Bers
Encounter 2
2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9
Rachel Bers
Encounter 3
2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9
Rachel Bers
Encounter 4
2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9
Rachel Bers
Maroon Embrace
2011
collaged silkscreened paper
12” x 9 “
Rachel Bers
Anteater Fantasy
2011
collaged silkscreened paper
12” x 9 “
Rachel Bers
Family Portrait
2011
collaged silkscreened paper
12” x 9 “
Rachel Bers
Moondrop 
2011
collaged silkscreened paper
12” x 9 “
Rachel Bers
The Incubating Eye
2011
collaged silkscreened paper
12” x 9 “
Rachel Bers
Darling Seedling
2011
collaged silkscreened paper
12” x 9 “
Rachel Bers: Conjurer
September 8, 2011 - October 7, 2011
Reception for the artist:  Thursday, September 8, 6-8 PM

4 4 3  P A S is pleased to announce Conjurer, an exhibition of recent work by Rachel Bers. Using botanical illustrations as a point of departure, Bers creates idiosyncratic biomorphic tableaux out of collaged colored vellum. Fantastical flora and fauna interact according to an intimate logic that suggests a narrative but leaves viewers free to draw their own conclusions.

Equally playful, her soft sculptures are flexible and can be made to hold different positions both on and off the wall. Begun as gestural line drawings, they are transformed into stuffed fabric forms that, like the collages, recall living organisms but exist in a realm that is distinctly their own.

In all of her work, Bers employs a vibrant palette to evoke domestic and biological excess - and possibility. 

Bers holds and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Brown University. She has exhibited her work at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Muskat Studios in Boston and the Reanimation Library in Brooklyn. More work can be seen at her website at www.rachelbers.com.

Pantheon, photograph (limited edition) size variable, 2006
Ezekial, photograph (limited edition) size variable, 2006
Abre Sol, photograph (limited edition) size variable, 2006
Great Chain of Being, photograph (limited edition) size variable, 2006
Grail, photograph (limited edition) size variable, 2006
For Redon 10, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 11, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 12, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 13, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 8, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 16, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
-For Redon 17, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 2, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
For Redon 1, digital collage (limited edition), size variable, 2011
Fog, aluminum, acrylic paint, steel wire, 60" x 96" x 14", 2011
Horizon 24, collage, 41.5" x 31.35", 2000
Horizon 46, collage, 40" x 33, 2000
Lazarus, glass, steel, wire, 74" x 24" x 15, 1996-7
Spirit of Fire, bronze mesh, steel wire, 74" x 24" x 15", 1995
Invisible Man x 3, photograph/triptych (limited edition), each 65" x 32", 2011
Icarian Angel, photograph (limited edition), 36.125" x 30", 2011
Continuum: New Works by Daniel Joshua Goldstein
October 11, 2011 – December 1, 2011
Reception for the artist: Tuesday, October 11, 6-8 PM

4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce Continuum: New Works by Daniel Joshua Goldstein. These pieces encompass a wide range of materials and forms including ethereal suspended sculptures in blue glass, crystal and bronze mesh; a kinetic wall-frieze comprised of multiple rotating panels in subtle gradations representing an expanse of sea fog; and large-scale minimalist, digital collages that draw their inspiration from French symbolist Odilon Redon. 

Goldstein is a well-known AIDS activist and related works in the show include a triptych of photographs of his syringe sculpture "Invisible Man" and a study from his "Icarian Series" made of the worn-down leather skins of exercise equipment from a gym frequented by gay men before and during the AIDS epidemic.  Goldstein is featured in the recently released award-winning and Sundance honored documentary “We Were Here” now playing nation-wide. 

Goldstein's undergraduate studies took place at Brandeis University and UC Santa Cruz and graduate studies under the great English sculptor Sir Anthony Caro at St. Martin's in London. Goldstein’s works of art have appeared in numerous solo and group shows in the U.S. and around the world. He has received world-wide acclaim and his work is in many American and international private, corporate and museum collections. To see more of his work visit www.danielgoldsteinstudio.com and for information on the film “We Were Here” see www.wewereherefilm.com 

A 24 page full color catalog of "Continuum" is now available. Contact the gallery for more information.
The illustrated catalog essay is available online.
Sue Havens: SpaceKnit
January  5th - Febuary 3rd
Opening Reception January 5th 6-8

443 P A S is proud to present “SpaceKnit” a collection of past and present works by Sue Havens.

Described in ArtForum as “improvisational and exacting”, Havens paintings are paradoxical: flat, yet dimensional, and bold with an inner quiet, hard edged yet fragile, cartoonish but serious. There is geometry with a built in wobble--a structure with an underlying undoing-a precision with a persistent irregularity. There is tension in places where planes transition- they collide and overlap, and where muted colors meet bright colors, forming a harmonic and balanced, yet discordant tension. The result is a 3 dimensional journey of abstraction where painting and sculpture collide in a symphony of beauty and artistic grace.
She has exhibited with Postmasters, Regina Rex, White Colums, Fredrich Petzel, Art in General, Momenta Art, Sara Meltzer, OK Harris, Pierogi, Portland Art Center (Portland), And/Or (Dallas), and The Cooper Union, among others. 
Havens is a 2008 fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts at Bard College.
She is the author of "Make Your Own Toys," 2010, with Random House (Potter Craft), and creates in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Pratt Institute and Montclair State University.


Steps 9"w x 19"l x 3"d
Untitled (Grey Diagonal) 19"w x 21"h x 4"d
Red Diagonal 9"w x 23"l x4"d
Big Grey Slab14"w x 19"l x 5"d
Untitledf (Small White Box) 3"w x 5"l x 2"
Yakut Pink 10"w x 12"l x 2"d
Watercolor 16"w x 20"
Box Spring 22"w x 30"h x 4"d
Cruciform 43"w x 65l
Halloween 54"w x 68"l
Pale Braid 11"w x 10"h x 2"d
Colorful Slab 9"w x 12"h x 3"d
Red Grid 24"w x 38"h x 7"d
Grey Zig Zag 14" x 17" x 4"
Cruciform Construction 7"w x 10"h x 3"d
Navajo 10" x 11" x 3"
SqyareRound 14" x 17" x 4"
Yakut (Black and White) 8" x 11" x 3"
Small Box Spring 6" x 9" x 4"
drawing 19.5" x 16"
drawing 20" x 15"
Drawing 20" x 15"
Drawing 9" x 8"
BEN OLSON : Swindling Weavers
Curated by Damon Johnson
February 8th to March 2nd

Through layers of vibrant color, dripping paint, expressive brush strokes ranging from loving to pure intensity. Ben Olson paints his life, to show you yours.
The images serve as portraits of himself, and his muses, who are often very close friends or family members. The paintings act as portals for the viewer to place themselves into a new world, examining the threads of truth, of human nature and more often than not the fictional life that humans surround themselves in.  
The paint is transformed into a personal visual doorway, cracked open for a moment, but captured forever. With the slash of a brushstroke, the drip of paint, the tender rendering of a woman, the final result is joy and beauty, inviting the viewer to dream and leave with their own color drenched truth. 

Ben Olson is a visual artist from New York. He was born in Minnesota and his paintings and drawings have been shown nationally and internationally since 2000. Exhibited in galleries and museums, Ben’s work has also appeared in many publications including French Vogue, New American Paintings and Juxtapoz. 

Gallery Hours : Monday to Thursday 10am to 6pm, Friday 10am to 4pm. Saturday and Sunday by appointment only

Ghosts(1) 24" x 43"
Ghosts (2) 24" x 43"
Nightmare 44" x 36"
Spiders 24" x 24"
Secret Puncture 48" x 48"
Totem 48" x 60"
Dip.48" x 72"
“Whatcha See is Whatcha Get”
Felipe Mujica and Johanna Unzueta
Curated by: Simon Watson
Opening Reception Monday March 5th 6-8 pm


        We are proud to present the work of Felipe Mujica and Johanna Unzueta into the daily structure of the office situation, architectural/exhibition space 443 PAS.  
Although their work is shaped by different interests and therefore produces different outcomes both artists share a long history of collaborations, which has to do - partially - with the fact of sharing a common background: both artists are from Chile and both immigrated to New York in early 2000

         For 443 PAS Johanna Unzueta will present a series of felt made sculptures that take into consideration architectural features of the office space as well as the notion of labor, its technological, historical and social impact on the human condition. Mostly working with felt (and other materials such as fabric, wood and cardboard) the way Unzueta manipulates this material is as important for her as what is being represented. The notion of labor does not only exist as a social and historical context yet it is present in the fabrication of each artwork: her work as an artist is presented horizontally and equally to the labor involved in hand made and industrial manufacture.

        Felipe Mujica will present a new group of geometric based fabric panels (or as he calls them “curtains”). These fabric panels are part of an ongoing series of installations that function as exhibition design which organize space, dividing and arranging it into a set of intermedial spatial constructions. By doing this they redirect the viewer’s circulation affecting their perception of space and its contents. The twist for 443 PAS would be their smaller size and the fact that they will be installed high, close to the ceiling, working more as signals and flags than actual spatial dividers, creating a colorful and formal intervention in space that will eventually interact with the daily routines of the office and its employees. Mujica will also present a small group of silkscreen prints, which present new readings from imaginary taken from graphic design of the 60s’ and 70s’. These images work as an historical counterpart to the modernist references of the curtain pieces. 

         The title of this exhibition was taken from The Dramatics 1971 single. The song became the bands break though making it into the “Top 10” of the Billboard Hot 100 and was awarded the gold disc status by the R.I.A.A. in December of 1971. In the context of the exhibition the title and its reference become a Motown-spirited nod to Frank Stella’s famous quote “What you see is what you see”. 

Gallery Hours : Monday to Thursday 10am to 6pm, Friday 10am to 4pm. Saturday and Sunday by appointment only

Centipede 10" x 52" Felt,Thread, and wood. 2012
Johanna Unzueta
Gas Can. 2011. Felt and thread. 9" x 5" x 15"
Sink. 2011. Felt and thread. 24" x 14" x 36"
Sink Detail
Tea Cups. 2010 Felt and thread 7" x 9"
Tea Cups. 2010. Felt and thread. 7" x 9"
Brown Pipe B. 2011. Felt and thread 7" x 15" x 46"
Mycetochara. 2012. Felt ans thread. 18" x 2.5" x 5"
Brown Pipe(A). 2011. Felt and thread. 5" x 5" x 32"
Untitled. 2012. Cotton fabric and thread 24" x 48"
Felipe Mujica
Untitled. 2012. Cotton fabric and thread. 24" x48"
Untitled.2012. Cotton fabric and thread. 36" x 36"
New Music Media n.2 in Tsumagoi, 1976. 2011. 1 color silkscreen on paper. 25" x 40.5"
Nikkorex 35, 1960. 2011. 1 color silkscreen on paper. 25" x 40.5"
BEN OLSON : Swindling Weavers
Curated by Damon Johnson
February 8th to March 2nd
“THE BEST KEPT SECRET”
Curated by Damon Johnson
Featuring the work of Thomas Frost, Eric Inkala, Damon Ginandes, Jason Anderson, Alexander Dawson, Damon Johnson, and Kid Lew
April 4th to May 3rd

The title of the show is a reference’s Diamond D’s song of the same title. The song was recorded in 1990 and released 2 years later. It was the first time the legendary producer rapped on record. The secret of his skills in multiple mediums was revealed.
‘The Best Kept Secret’ will be an unveiling of sorts. Secrets will be revealed. The unknown made known. This is their first chance, for some in the show to display their talent in a gallery setting. The exhibited artists have secrets or secret identities or have produced work in secret. While hometowns vary from Brooklyn, Westchester, Boston, and Minneapolis; they all have roots in graffiti and street art. Names have been changed or retired, some are still infamous, and all are intertwined to an aerosol past, in which many have criminal history for the sake of their art.
Each artist has a distinctive style, and unique way of creation, from the use of bold colors to stencils to ceramic sculpture these artists have created their own style and techniques. While each artist work varies stylistically and thematically, the ferocious attitudes and bold statements resonate similarly. Some secrets can’t be kept forever. 

Thomas Frost
Eric Inkala
Damon Ginandes
Jason Anderson
Alexander Dawson
Kid Lew
Damon Johnson

"Fuego Artifical" Juan Carlos Castro
Curated by Laurel Sparks
May 8–June 8, 2012 

4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce Fuego Artificial, an exhibition of mixed media works by Juan Carlos Castro. 

“Hailing from seemingly contradictory cultures of Fashion and Buddhism, Juan Carlos Castro’s studio practice 
explores the psychological realms of identity expression and drama. His photo collages, videos and assemblages 
range from sublime to abject as he dissects the relationship between artifice and the nature of mind.” 
—Laurel Sparks, curator 

A closer look at a wallpaper pattern reveals the ornate design to be comprised of miniature, overhead photographic 
self-portraits. At a distance, a large scale collage triptych composed of individually cut circles becomes an interlocking 
image of blood cells and stars. Other pieces range from velum-tiled digital scans of inside-out wigs and rolling 
marbles to actual synthetic hair and mixed media on wood panel. His video performance further explores the 
prevalent theme of circularity via spinning: the body in ritual movement and gender play—sequins, fire and a high-heel 
headstand—all captured from overhead by a rotating video camera. 

At once symbolic and physically visceral, Juan Carlos’ work is an ongoing meditation on the centerless structure 
of identity and the unstable nature of binary stystems in the sphere of representation. 

This is Juan Carlos Castro’s first solo show. He is the advertising Design Director at Vogue magazine and lives in 
Brooklyn, NY. Notable exhibitions, performances and collaborations include “Shapeshifters,” a group exhibition 
at 4 4 3 P A S in New York City in July 2011. He’s currently working on an ongoing collection of “feather wiglets” 
with and for Ana Matronic of the band Scissor Sisters, the first of which made its debut on the Monster Ball 
Tour with Lady Gaga, February 2011. In May 2009 he participated in the multimedia performance “Voice & Light 
Systems, Part Four: Auroville” produced by Nick Hallet at the New Museum in New York City. In October 2008 
he performed in a music video produced by English Kills for “Royal Windsor Coven,” featured on The Fly DVD 
magazine, “The Conscious Dreams” Issue. In September 2006 he exhibited a wall mural collage in the group 
show “All the Numbers I Know” at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn. In September 2002 he collaborated in a 
group exhibit entitled “Funny, You Don’t Look It,” at The Gallery @ Green Street in Boston, MA. He studied 
Fine Arts at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1992-1996) and Advertising Communications at 
Emerson College (1996-1998).

Vibrant Intersections
Curated by Damon Johnson and Andrea LaBouff
Featuring the work of Malado Baldwin, Damon Johnson, Andrea LaBouff, Seamus Liam O’Brien, and Justin Terry
Opening Reception: Tuesday, June 19th 6-8 ppm
June 19th -August 15th

4 4 3 is proud to present Vibrant Intersections. While the artist’s range in origins, from sun drenched California to the energetic world of West Africa, the bright lights of New York City to a life spent under the circus tent and the magic world of Disney, these artists all share a love of color. Their worlds beaming with energy, and an even bolder palate, they express their unique views through brush and stunning hues.

This collection of work creates conversations between pieces and individuals. From the most apparent, they vary in style from the pop art influence of Seamus Liam O’Brien and Damon Johnson to the abstract expressionist visions of Andrea LaBouff, and Justin Terry, to the psychedelic patterning and imagery of Malado Baldwin, all artists join one another in fanciful exuberance and energetic color. In addition to this, is the union between the reflection steeped in urban and natural environments. To the more conceptually driven, this exhibit intercommunicates between ideas, spirits, and lifestyles. These pieces and artists collectively engage in a dynamic crossroads, out of where new experience is born.


Malado Baldwin is a painter, filmmaker, and installation artist whose childhood in West Africa- specifically the textiles and jewelry of the region- are a strong and visible influence in her work. Other references include Chinese landscape painting, early religious art, cave painting, and science fiction writing. Her visionary paintings are both vibrant and transitory, shaping new through the melding of experiences. These often psychedelic works are strikingly bold, entering the viewer's sphere through an alchemic quality of paint & magic.

Damon Johnson grew up in and around New York City his entire life, Johnson’s work has been described as urban surrealism; a melting pot of influences and art movements. His work combines pop culture references to graffiti, comics, cartoons, and tattoo art and skate graphics with traditional art movements including abstract expressionism, neo-expressionism, op-art and surrealism.

Seamus Liam O’Brien spent the formative years of his life performing with his family on various circuses throughout the United States, including the All Star Circus, T.N.T Circus, and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He would later go on to perform as a costumed character at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Resort in Orlando, Florida. He has also worked as studio manager for pop artist Takashi Murakami from 2006-2010. His work, is pop, iconic, and yet ironic. Thought provoking and bold.

Andrea LaBouff applies quixotic intuition and Nature's sublimity along and against modernist logics of drawing and painting. LaBouff’s interest is in the movement between micro and macro, to achieve new gestalts akin to written poetry. Her colorfully tactile paintings have been described both as tender and fearsome. Among other inspirations music, textiles, and live performances infuse LaBouff's work with lush energy. From Los Angeles and Philadelphia, LaBouff now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Justin Terry was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Nashville. After high school, he moved to Colorado where he spent much of his time snowboarding, playing pick-up basketball, and painting pictures of musical idols. After receiving a BFA from the University of Colorado, he moved to Barcelona and found work as an English teacher. In Spain, his painting shifted from iconic figures towards an abstracted figurative style that included colorful depictions of flowers and the human form. After returning from Barcelona, he attended Pratt Institute in New York and earned a MFA in Fine Art, Painting and a MS in History of Art, Design, and Architecture. Since moving to New York, his work has become completely abstract referencing Gerhard Richter and the meditative qualities of Mark Rothko's color field paintings, evoking concepts of time, movement, and friction.

Andrea LaBouff
Malado Baldwin
Justin Terry
Seamus Liam O'Brien
Damon Johnson
ida y Vuelta (outward journey and return)
Oil on canvas. 48" x 34". 2012
Chirigotas
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 34" x 34". 2012
Allison Malinsky
RETORNO

September 12th-October 12th 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 12th, 6-8pm

443 PAS is pleased to present Retorno, a solo show of new paintings by Allison Malinsky that continue the artist’s ongoing exploration of nature and place. Using a range of painting techniques and media, she examines the structure of landscapes as filtered through memory and experience.

The imagery and color palette featured in this body of work are directly influenced by the two years Malinsky lived and worked in Southern Spain. Capturing the unique light of the region, she presents crisp Andalusian panoramas and, more abstractly, the churning azure waves and turbulent skies. The Smartly observed compositions create mysterious spaces outside of time, while the overwhelming use of blue imbues the work with longing.

Aptly titling her show Retorno (The Spanish translation for “a return”), Malinsky presents visions of places that seem to exist only in memory-places that we may revisit, but which we can never return.

Alison Malinsky (b. 1980, lives and works in New York) has her Masters in painting from New York University. Her work has been shown in several galleries in Spain, as well as Kathleen Cullen Gallery, NY, Factory Fresh Gallery, NY, and Waiting Room Gallery, Tokyo.

Órgano (framed)
Acrylic and ink on paper, 26" x 34". 2012
Rojo. naranja, azul (framed)
Watercolor on paper, 26" x 34". 2012
Ventana (Window, dark)
Oil, Acrylic stain and pencil on canvas, 26" x 34", 2012
Ventana (Window, light) 
Oil, Acrylic stain and pencil on canvas, 26"  34"" 2012
Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave, dark),  (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor and ink on paper, 34" x 26", 2012
Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave) (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor and ink on paper, 34" x26".  2012
Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave with lines) (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor and ink on paper, 34" x 26". 2012
Vibrant Intersections.
Waxing and waning saffron moon (framed)
Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper, 26" x 34". 2012
Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave,grey) (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor, and ink on paper, 34" x 26". 2012
Untitled l
Oil, acrylic stain and pencil on canvas, 12" x 15" 2012
Untitled II
Oil, acrylic stain and pencil on canvas, 12" x 15". 2012.
Untitled
Oil, acrylic stain and acrylic on canvas, 73" x 26". 2012
Passing
Acrylic stain and acrylic on canvas. 34" x 26", 2012.
The return felt as if the flourescent lights were turned on
Acrylic and oil on canvas. 34' x 26", 2012.
Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave 1) (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor, and ink on paper. 34" x 26", 2012.
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Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave 2) (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor, andink on paper. 34" 26", 2012