Home within Home

Do Ho Suh
Home Within Home
8 September – 22 October, 2011
540 West 26th Street

Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents Home Within Home on view 8 September – 22 October, 2011 at 540 W. 26th Street.

In Home Within Home, Do Ho Suh will present a series of works that reflect the artist’s ongoing exploration of themes surrounding cultural displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities, as well as the perception of our surroundings and how one constructs a memory of a space. Suh’s own feeling of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. in 1991 to study at RISD led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. Years later, the artist developed the idea of taking these measurements and using them to replicate and transport spaces. Suh constructs these architectural spaces and the elements within them in various mediums including fabrics, resin, and Styrofoam. Among the works exhibited in this show will be Fallen Star 1/5, Home Within Home, and a series of fabric objects, all personally revealing works which invite viewers into his homes.

Swoon's Musical house in New Orleans

About the Project:
A Grand Gift for a Unique City
From the salvaged remains of a decrepit Creole Cottage, the Brooklyn-based artist Swoon has re-imagined a permanent, interactive sculpture for the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. We call it the Dithyrambalina. It will look like a house, but it will function like a musical instrument. A growing group of local and national sound artists are working towards interactive instruments that can be built into its walls and floorboards so that visitors can bring the house to life through their touch. Ultimately, musicians will be invited to play the house, performing orchestrated works at block parties for their friends and neighbors. This project is for the love of New Orleans - its architecture, music, culture and its people.
Swoon has designed the look of house and we have formed coalitions with everyone from architects to salvage suppliers. The next phase of our project is to create instrumentation for the house. This Fall our sound artists will publicly test their prototypes in a temporary installation we are calling The Music Box - A Shantytown Sound Laboratory.

Urs Fisher

Mike Nelson

At the British Pavillion Giardinio

THE TRANSFINITE

RYOJI IKEDA : " THE TRANSFINITE " ( FRONTAL PROJECTION )

Before I die, What is important to you?

Before

One month and seven hours of intense stenciling later and it’s up! With a lot of support from old and new friends, I turned the side of an abandoned house in my neighborhood into a giant chalkboard where residents can write on the wall and remember what is important to them in life. Before I Die transforms neglected spaces into constructive ones where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us. It turns out this entire process (including official approval from many entities) has been a great lesson, experience, and project in itself – more on that later. If you’re in New Orleans, stop by the corner of Marigny and Burgundy (900 Marigny Street) to add your thoughts to the wall and see what matters most to your neighbors. It’s a question that has changed me in the last year, and I believe the design of our public spaces can better reflect what’s important to us as residents and as human beings. The responses and stories from passersby while we were installing it have already hit me hard in the heart. More installations to come.- Candy Chang

More about Candy Chang check out her website here.

Michael Johansson

This looks like my closet!

I want him to come over my house and organize my closet (so neat!). For additional info on Michael Johansson's work, go to www.michaeljohansson.com

Martha Friedman

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VALESKA SOARES

Eleven Rivington

LUSH LIFE Whistle at Sue Scott Gallery

Lush Life

Through July 31, 2010

Sue Scott Gallery
1 Rivington Street
New York, NY

LUSH LIFE is an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery. The first chapter, Whistler is held at Sue Scott Gallery as one of nine chapters in a book. One artist was selected from each gallery to participate and then asked to recommend an artist not from one of the nine participating galleries (nine total recommendations). The curators then supplemented this base group of eighteen artists to complete nine exhibitions, ranging in size and drawing from a roster that includes: Alice O'Malley, Alisha Kerlin, Amy Longenecker-Brown, Carol Irving, Chakaia Booker, Christoph Draeger, Claudia Weber, Coco Fusco, Dana Frankfort, Dana Levy, Dani Leventhal, David Kramer, David Shapiro, Derrick Adams, Elisabeth Subrin, Erik Benson, Ezra Johnson, Gail Thacker, Gina Magid, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Jackie Gendel, Jackie Saccoccio, Jayson Keeling, Jessica Dickinson, Joanne Greenbaum, Jonathan VanDyke, Jose Lerma, Judi Werthein, Justen Ladda, Kai Schiemenz / Iris Fluegel, Karen Heagle, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Leslie Hewitt, Manuel Acevedo, Mario Ybarra Jr., Matthew Weinstein, Melissa Gordon, Nanna Debois Buhl, Nicolas Di Genova, Nina Lola Bachhuber, Olivier Babin, Patrick Lee, Patty Chang, Paul Gabrielli, Paul Pagk, Paul Pfeiffer, Pedro Barbeito, Rashid Johnson, Robert Beck, Robert Lazzarini, Robert Melee, Robin Graubard, Rudy Shepherd, Scott Hug, Tim Davis, Tommy Hartung, Xaviera Simmons, Yashua Klos

Four Projects at Haunch of Venison

Four Projects

Through August 8, 2010

Haunch of Venison
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York NY


Four Projects, a group exhibition at Haunch of Venison features four separate projects by artists Doug Argue, Bill Fontana, Alexandra Grant, and Les Rogers. Each individual project is located in separate areas within the space in which the physical layout of the gallery lends itself to separate, self-contained installations.

Art Hamptons

Art Hamptons

Through July 12, 2010

Art Hamptons
Sayre Park
154 Snake Hollow Rd
Bridgehampton, NY 11932

Art Hamptons returns, now in its 3rd successful year. The art fair features post-war and contemporary art presented by a renowned lineup of international galleries and includes all mediums of art from paintings, works on paper and printed editions to photography, art glass, ceramics and sculpture. In conjunction with the fair, The First Annual Worldwide Art Collectors' Conference, will be led by Benjamin Genocchio –Editor-in-Chief and VP of Editorial at Art & Auction and former Art Critic for the New York Times.

Group Show at Postmasters Gallery

Wall paintings by Adam Cvijanovic, paintings atop by David Humphrey

Through August 6, 2010

Postmasters Gallery
459 West 19th Street
New York, NY

Not Quite Open for Business at The Hole NYC

Not Quite Open for Business

Through August 14, 2010

The Hole
104 greene street
New York, NY



Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman (former directors of Deitch) opened a new gallery whose first show, Not Quite Open for Business, features deliberately unfinished works from artists such as Rosson Crow, Todd James, and Barry McGee.

RECYCLING BOOKS

Ben Gocker at P.P.O.W.

Ben Gocker

Through July 16, 2010

P.P.O.W.

511 West 25th Street, 301

New York, NY

Gocker's first solo exhibition, "There is really no single poem", features a variety of installations pieces, sculptures, drawings, and painterly compositions that work simultaneously together to create one single work. Much of his work plays with fantasy, child's play, and unrealized genius displayed in a linear, almost systematic fashion.