OPENING & BOOK LAUNCH:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 7PM—10PM

Life Dressing:
The
Idiosyncratic Fashionistas
by
Joana Avillez

Deep Struggle: Alex DeCarli & Dmitri Hertz
May 30—June 11, 2011
Opening Reception: June 4, 4—8pm

Sam Anderson, Employment

Opening reception Wednesday May 4, 6 – 9pm
Extended through May 29
All other dates by appointment only.
Closing BBQ, May 29 2–6pm

Employment features video and audio material recorded in Ozone Park, Queens, and in an apartment on the Upper West Side of NYC. Actresses Conchata Ferrell and Christine Dannic perform and describe auxiliary activities and career substitutes, while referring to an imagined mutual friend named Gloria. Sound and video is accompanied by two 6 foot clear acrylic tubes containing miniature complexes built to house 17 live snails.

Friendship is irresistible work
New work by Alison Wilder, March 20–30, 2011
Open House: Sunday March 20, 1–5 pm
Closing Reception: Friday March 25, 7–10 PM
Gallery hours by appointment

Friendship is irresistible work employs invented and learned surface design procedures in a body of androgynous sculpture-paintings that loosely stand in for bodies. It contains impractical uniform proposals and figurative non-figures with deadpan pipe dreams of functioning. It chiefly considers non-reproductive print-making, the idea that outfits are everyday drawings, and the pursuit of jouissance.

friendship is hard
friendship is hard to resist
friendship is resistance
friendship is work
friendship takes work
friends make work
friendship is making art work
friendship is irresistible work

art is resistance
art is hard to resist
art is hard to refuse
art is refusal
art is refuse
art is work
art is making work
art making is work
art making is irresistible work
art is making irresistible work
artists making irresistible work
art is making friends work

GG/GG:
One painting by Brian Faucette
One painting by Joe Johnson

February 5–14, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday February 5, 8—11pm
Screening of early Michael Smith videos by Cat Kron: Thursday February 10, 8pm

Ben Rayner, Power Ballads
December, 17–19

Opening reception
& book launch: December 17, 7–10 pm

Spoken Glass

Sculpture installation and performance by Sahra Motalebi
Opening: 7–9 pm
Performance featuring pianist Jay Israelson: 8 pm

After the theater is complete, a stage-set is the artifact. Expressionistic tendencies turn alchemical when action hits the situation. The place, the formal affect and the material itself could also be considered operative if one were in need of justification. Nearly under a highway, the scale seems decorative, the appearance is architectural and yet the paper is disintegrating. It’s the crystallization of certain ideas within drawing that make these figures worthwhile. Gestural. Simplified. The painting is iterative, it’s a copy generated from a shadow’s perspective. The details are in song form: ex tempore, 3rds, and how, why, wherefore and when.

Opening:
Saturday, November 13
5–8 pm

Leaders is using Primetime as a residency during the month of October to explore new musical and accompanying visual elements to incorporate into an upcoming recording project. The residency includes a stripped down version of instruments along with inspirational decor and art making tools.

Primetime (inside) Participant (for) Collective Show
Opening Reception:
Sunday, September 19, 7:00 — 9:00pm
On view through September 26

Primetime is pleased to be included in Collective Show, an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary collaborative art groups recently established in New York. Come out Sunday evening for the opening reception: grab a beer, a donut, and a free printed-on-the-spot publication in our space-within-a-space.

Participant Inc
253 East Houston
New York City

Jules Marquis, Landscapes
Thursday, August 26
Opening Reception: 7–10pm

The show will consist of one blue air freshener hanging off the back gate of the space. The show will be made up of a “scent” creating landscapes in ones psyche. After entering the space and getting hit with the aroma, you start to look around at the minor details of the space and really appreciate them. Seeing the space and as mini micro landscapes. We think this creates a great space intervention with a minimal gesture- working on people’s sensations other than visuals.

http://julesmarquis.com/

Michael Farmer, Recent Paintings
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 18, 7–11pm
Hours: 12–6pm thru Monday, August 24

Bill Daniel: Cash’n'Carry Texas Punk Print Sale, and Sonic Orphans screening

Monday 16 and Tuesday 17
Doors at 7. Films at 8. Music at 9

Cash’n’Carry Texas Punk Print Show and Sale: Photos from the Texas punk scene 1980-84.

Between 1980 and 1984 Bill Daniel shot around 12,000 images of basically every punk band that was touring through Austin, TX—Minutemen, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Misfits, Husker Du, Circle Jerks… and all the Texas bands at the time, Big Boys, the Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Really Red, the Offenders, DRI, and MDC. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Dara Greenwald’s recovery from cancer surgery.

Sonic Orphans Screening:

Sonic Orphans is a compilation reel of lost and found clips shot between 1965 and 1987 projected on 16mm by Bill Daniel; some silent, some that rock. They are all rare and strange celluloid gems, many have been seen by almost no one and have never seen the light of YouTube. Most of this footage is truly orphaned film— abandoned, lost, found, and now presented raw without editing. Featuring: The Beatles, Avengers, Huns, Boy Problems, Sonic Youth, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Butthole Surfers, Johnny Cash and more.

http://billdaniel.net

For the month of August, Luke Barber-Smith will host a series of events and shows:

Friday, August 13: Sam Friedman, Three Paintings
August 15, 16, 17: Bill Daniel. Cash ‘n’ Carry Punk Print Sale, and a screening of Sonic Orphans.
August 18–23: Michael Farmer, Recent Paintings
August 24–31: Jules Marquis (Colin Snapp & Dan Turner)

The East Coast debut of Jess Ryan’s latest work Kaleiding. Kaleiding is a 14 foot long Kaleidoscope that incorporates piece specific digital projections and features an original score by John Atkinson of Aa.

Come, bring your friends, drink beer and enjoy the psychedelia!

Opening Rececption
Friday, July 23, 2010
6:30pm–10:00pm

Hours:
Sunday July 25th 2-5pm
Monday July 26th 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday July 28th 6:30-8:30pm
Friday July 30th 6:30-8:30pm
Or e-mail for appointment

What we’ve heard is that a salt mine can seem like an empty hole. It can appear that no work is being done. In a carved out room, a small clean salt room, there is no way to tell where the room ends. It can be very dangerous down there. We’ve also heard that the salt mine is a blank slate, a new beginning, when things seem just as precarious as they are sturdy. Maybe this is a way of focusing, or maybe it is a place where you will be forgotten about long enough so that you can focus. The hallways here won’t give you much room to see what is happening, or what is about to happen. In a salt mine it is never so much that it is a maze, there is a plan, an overly simple plan. The paths always lead to important rooms. The same is true here with our mine, but the mining is not a metaphor, what we have done is the reverse of mining, we have added materials, only to take them away. It is literally a salt mine, in every sense. We’ve heard a salt mine is that place where you never want to go, but always have to go when you start something you haven’t done before. Our space is easy enough to figure out, four halls, one room. It is like a home. It is also like an arena. More likely, it is a place where you are forced to be alone.

Work by:

Sam Anderson
Michael Wang
Justin Lieberman
Michel Auder
Ted Mineo
Kate Levant
Dmitri Hertz
Michael Anderson
Adam Gordon
Becky James
Alex DiCarli

Ryan Wolfe, Foundations

Opening Sunday May 2 from 7-10

Featuring art, multiples, zines, records, and more from….. Adam Marnie + Alex Kujawski + Alex Roth + Amigos + Arobor + Art Fag Records + Bill Hayden + Brendan Fowler + Brian Faucette + Chip Hughes + Coastal Shelf + David Horvitz + Dmitri Hertz + Dynasty + Ethan Swan+ Erik Lindman + Erin Jane Nelson + Frontier + Hyped To Death+ Jason Eberspeaker + Jess Poplawski + JoJo Li + Jordan Awan + Jon Bocksel + The Kingsboro Press + LIiturgy + Max Pitegoff +Medium Rare + Meggie Kelley + Mexican Summer+ Milano Chow + Mondo Bondo + New Humans + Not Not Fun + Nous Publishing + Paperback + Paul Cowan + Ryan Foerster + Ryan Waller + Scott Keightley + What Nothing Press + Will Boone + MANY MANY MORE………

One set of Platano Candies. 4 different flavors from La Colmena, Barcelona for $6.00 from Serifcan Özcan & Naz Sahin. SOLD

The original drawing for the 81st frame of the animation “Transformation of Narlidere City Council”. One available framed for $85.00 + $10.00 postage from Serifcan Özcan & Naz Sahin.

One hand-painted Baggu Duck Bag. Comes with two booklets that explore the circle. Four available for $20.00 + $5.00 postage from Galen Wolfe-Pauly.

Kenny Loggins “Keep The Fire” 9-song LP with lyrics insert. One available for $2.00 + $4.00 postage from Jess Ryan. SOLD

Two vintage framed needlepoints. One 6.5 x 6.5″ (orange) and one 14 x 14″ (strawberries). One set available for $12.00 + $5.00 postage from Jess Ryan. SOLD

A set of three owl themed patches available for $15.00 from Serifcan Ozcan & Naz Sahin. SOLD

One black button by Helmut Lang $5.00 from Serifcan Özcan & Naz Sahin.

Phallic Meat. Italian Porn DVD available for $8.00 + $2.00 postage from Jess Ryan. Must be 18 to purchase.

Gift flower. Postcard available for $1.00 from Ryan Waller.

A politically charged one dollar bill (found on street in 2007) $1.00 + $.46 postage from Serifcan Ozcan & Naz Sahin. SOLD

One set of three screen-printed paper dürüm wraps. 2 available for $3.00 + $1.00 postage from Serifcan Özcan & Naz Sahin.

Terry Richardson photograph. Unsigned but vouched for 4″ x 6″ print available for $100.00 from Jess Ryan.

One zip lock bag filled with vintage (1980′s) pop-culture trading cards for $10.00 + $2.00 postage from Jess Ryan. SOLD

Real Marc Jacobs sunglasses. One pair available for $75.00 + $6.00 postage from Jess Ryan.

Set of five vintage postcards from the Smithsonian. Three sets available for $15.00 + $1.00 postage from Gary Fogelson. SOLD

Blossom and Wide Stripe Bloomers by Opus. Pima cotton shorts available in 3-6 or 6-12 months for $46.00 + $3.00 postage from Scarlett Boulting.

Kingsboro 5. Riso and xerox printed fifth issue of Brooklyn based arts quarterly. Unpaginated, edition of 350 available for $20.00 + $3.00 postage from Megan Plunkett.

Tan Salvadore Ferragamo tailored cotton dress. One available in size 38 for $45.00 + $5.00 postage from Meredith James. ON HOLD

One 8×12″ digital c-print of a photograph taken in San Francisco. Edition of five, four available for $30.00 + $2.00 postage from Gary Fogelson.

The New College Beat Supplement #2: Kirsten Dunst Fanzine (for Primetime). A 24 page Risograph printed book. Edition of fifty, 43 available available for $10.00 + $1.00 postage from Ryan Waller.

Grey and black tie-dye skirt by Thakoon for Target. One available in size 1 for $15.00 + $3.00 postage from Meredith James.

Brown Chloe T-shirt with floral skull print. One available in size small for $25.00 + $3.00 postage from Meredith James.
SOLD.

Portnoy’s Complaint ripped cover repair card with recipe for chopped liver by Meryl Schwartz Holcombe (Gary’s mom). Edition of 25, 24 available for $3.00 each. One available with unrepaired first edition book for $50.00 + $3.00 postage from Gary Fogelson.

Floral Daze V-neck by Opus. Pima cotton t-shirt tavailable in 3-6, 6-12, or 12-18 months for $35.00 + $3.00 postage from Scarlett Boulting.

Leaders – Dream Driving compact disc. Five available for $8.00 + $1.00 postage from Phil Lubliner.