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: 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 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
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.
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: 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.
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.
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
“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
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.
"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.
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
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.
Ola, Barbate de Franco (wave 2) (framed)
Acrylic, watercolor, andink on paper. 34" 26", 2012