All The Colors of The Musical Spectrum - Jessica Reynoza

These star studded works by Reynoza smear the balance of music and art relentlessly with vigor and meter. Willowz( for the uninitiated a pop rock combo from Anaheim, California), bass player Reynoza, spawns multiple levels of creativity in an otherwise brackish and blurry atmosphere of indie culture and the cumulative counter cultures of the 90's combined.

We bring to the plate a pate' of Rock Icons, Hens and the acceleration of Beer culture based on the empirical deducement of borderline white trash behavior patterns. These new pieces are charming to the voyeuristic appeal 

November 05, 2009 — December 19, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

Splitting Twilight, an exhibition of new paintings by Kristin Baker, opens at Deitch Projects on November 5, 2009. Baker continues to push the contradictions inherent in the genre of painting while simultaneously celebrating its history. The new body of work playfully remixes the legacy of landscape painting within a modernist structure.

Kristin Baker is bending painting’s seeming limitations. By emphasizing the materiality of paint through her built up layers of troweled acrylic, Baker’s paintings approach other two-dimensional practices such as printmaking, photography and paper assemblage. While upholding the power and dynamism of painting, Baker seeks to create a third dimension in between many genres and hindered by none. Her compositions combine illusionistic and pictorial space as well as blatantly artificial forms and surfaces. Each mark and shape is created not by a brush but by an outline of torn tape. The final silhouette is filled in with paint, and when the tape is ripped away, a free-floating “gesture” or “mark” is added to the piece.

Starting on Tuesday, June 9, Art Battles moves into the RedBull Space to curate The Living Art Exhibition, hosted by Alchemy Properties, Inc.  For two weeks, the SoHo studio will be transformed into a Live Art Gallery and Art Battles Arena, during which eight live artists will be allotted gallery time to create their artwork for the exhibition in front of attendees.  The public is invited to come down to the RedBull Space and observe the artists in progress and literally watch the Living Art Exhibition grow as the artwork is created.  

The top four artists from The Living Art Exhibition, as voted on by critics and guests, will then go on to perform on stage at this summer’s opening event at Central Park Summer Stage.  The artists are also competing to be chosen as the muralist for Alchemy Properties’ new condominium development, The Griffin, located at the corner of Tenth Avenue and 54th Street.  

While some Artists have Book and some Artists have 'Books", the new publication by Taschen is most definitely the later. Koons is a 598-page ode of Jeff Koons work. The book also in it's entirety embellishes the very spirit of Jeff Koons with it's excess as if it was almost not just a book but his latest piece of work. In perfect style the book perfectly recreates Jeff’s justifiable ego by printing each article in the book in English, German and French. As if to say I am so worldwide and I have so much work that we have plenty of room next to all my work to publish each article three times without any complaints. While a bit frustrating at times they are entirely correct. Without publishing each article in each language the book would largely be a photomontage but the trilingual publishing does send the reader a message and serve as a statement to Jeff Koons' international greatness.

Koons opens it's 598-page journey with a fitting article by Ingrid Sichy, which serves as a biographical introduction for the book. It’s a wonderful piece written after Koons installed the first new work at the World trade Center after 9/11. The article traces back his routes as a young boy and takes us on a quick run through several important periods in his life as a child, while working at MOMA through a National Endowment for the Arts internship and further through the 80's. The article goes on to touch on the importance of Koons work and his politics but it's not until you have finished seeing the complete evolution of his work from 1979 to the present day can you truly understand what Koons has accomplished.

March 07, 1996 — April 04, 1996
76 Grand Street, New York

Kessler's Circus places the viewer inside the American war machine. An army tent pitched inside the gallery houses mechanical sculptures and barracks stacked with video monitors. The work depicts the American military-industrial complex as macabre circus, traveling from country to country, importing nothing and exporting atrocities under the veil of democracy. Rather than simply presenting a mediated spectacle, Kessler indicts the audience in the violence.

Surrounded by handmade mechanisms and surveillance cameras, the viewer becomes part of the machine. There is an induced sense of vertigo and surge of paranoia, as the viewer's own faces appear in the video feed. Entering Kessler's Circus, one is immersed in an undefined state, conflating machine and spectacle with entertainment and horror.

January 09, 2009 — February 28, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

Rock on Mars, a retrospective exhibition of the work of Stephen Sprouse, will transform Deitch Projects’s 18 Wooster Street gallery into a realization of Sprouse’s rock and roll futuristic vision.

Stephen Sprouse (1953-2004) was one of the most influential fashion designers of his time and a key figure in the dynamic mix of punk rock, wild style graffiti, and street influenced fashion that characterized the downtown New York community in the early 1980s. He was one of the first to build on the influence of Andy Warhol to create a fusion of art, music and fashion. He continued on a course that disavowed any division among these fields throughout his career.

The exhibition will introduce Sprouse’s extraordinary pop-influenced paintings to the larger art audience. His paintings of iconic rock and roll imagery including stacks of loudspeakers, Sid Vicious with his pants down, and an Iggy Pop crucifixion, have rarely been seen. The show will also include a selection of the video works made to accompany his runway shows, examples of his fabric and furniture design for Knoll, and fifty of his most influential fashion looks.