Gʉilty / (NOT) Guilty
Related Press:
Sarah Schmerler. “3 Ladies of Chill Repute,” Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Art, Feb 2012. (PDF)
Hrag Vartanian. “When Paintings Are Easily Reproduced,” Hyperallergic, Jan 11, 2012. (PDF)
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento. “Is This Copyright Infringement of An Artist’s Painting?” Clancco, Jan 11, 2012. (PDF)
Sarah Hassan. “Guilty/(Not) guilty at Norte Maar,” Art Writ, Jan 2012. (PDF)
Sharon Butler. “Guilty: Kicking off 2012 in Bushwick,” Two Coats of Paint, Jan 7, 2012. (PDF)
A blurb about Guilty, Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Art, Jan 5, 2012.
Katarina Hybenova. Opening recap, Bushwick Daily, Jan 2, 2012.
Karen Day. “GɄILTY / (NOT) GUILTY: A New Show Curated by Sarah Schmerler Sheds Light on the Luster of Four Artists’ Work,” Cool Hunting, Dec 20, 2011. (PDF)
Naya. Exhibition Preview, OZONWEB, Dec 22, 2010.
Gʉilty / (NOT) Guilty:
a group show curated by Sarah Schmerler
Jan 1–Jan 29, 2012
Hours: Weekends 1-6pm or by appointment
Norte Maar
83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B
Brooklyn, NY
Directions by Subway:
L train to Brooklyn. Dekalb Ave stop. Cross streets are Wyckoff + Suydam.
Featuring Artists Ellen Letcher, Francesco Masci, Alfred Steiner, and Pablo Tauler
and in the project room: Paulius Nosokas and Wade Schaming
Bushwick, Brooklyn — Norte Maar is pleased to present Gʉilty / (NOT) Guilty, an exhibition curated by Sarah Schmerler and in collaboration with 45 Projects. The exhibition introduces four New York-based, contemporary artists who paint, draw, and make conceptual projects in methods that both take for granted — and re-cast —what society considers as being good, reasonable (and therefore valid) reasons for making a work of art. The exhibition opens with a New Year's Day Champagne Brunch on January 1, 2012 from 11-2PM.
About the Artists:
Pablo Tauler: a dreamy sort of guy who knows how to rock a ballpoint pen. Born in Chile (and into Pinochet's reign of terror), he had a tough time growing up as a teen in suburban Maryland. Now he transforms his memories into airy, luminous drawings.
Ellen Letcher: uses paint, not to depict her own imagery, but rather as an adhesive for affixing photos of consumer-goods (and other disturbing content!) ripped from mass-produced magazines and newspapers. She also co-runs a gallery called Famous Accountants in Ridgewood, where she shows new work by local artists.
Alfred Steiner: a copyright lawyer by day, Steiner bought a painting at CANADA gallery on the Lower East Side by Allison Schulnik, and had a replica of it fabricated with a 3-D printer. (Both, now considered a single artwork, are on display here.) To cover himself legally, he sent Schulnik an e-mail to give her a head's up that he'd done the deed. She's not worried. Yet.
Francesco Masci: Google surfer, classically trained Italian painter. He's depicted (among other things) his girlfriend lying on a couch as a naked odalisque surrounded by raw meat; Twitter birds pooping on Charles Darwin's head, and other phantasmagorical subjects with the accuracy of an Archimboldo.
Additional artists featured in the project room include: Berlin-based Paulius Nosokas and L.I.C.-based Wade Schaming.
* This exhibition was first 'workshopped' on 45projects.com in an online exhibition called "The Guilt Show." Paulius Nosokas designed the exhibit, the catalogue, and the site.
About 45projects:
45projects is a virtual exhibition platform that shows real contemporary artworks in lushly rendered 3-D spaces and in e-catalogs. It was created in 2010 by Berlin-based artist and designer Paulius Nosokas and curated by Brooklyn-based art critic, Sarah Schmerler. Guilty / NOT Guilty began its life virtually on the site as "The Guilt Show" in May, 2011. 45projects is honored to be having its first brick-and-mortar production at Norte Maar.
An interview with Sarah Schmerler on the James Kalm Report, Jan 5, 2012
