between a place and candy
: new works in pattern + repetition + motif
curated by Jason Andrew
organized by Norte Maar
Mar 16-Jun 12, 2015
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm
Opening reception: Mon, Mar 16, 6-8pm
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery
(btwn 51st and 52nd Streets, New York, NY)
between a place and candy: new work in pattern + repetition + motif is sponsored by the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, in partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle, as a community based public service
Press:
Fenella Kennedy. "Events between a place and candy," the headtail connection, March 17, 2015 (PDF)
Kate Liebman. "between a place and candy," The Brooklyn Rail, June 3, 2015 (PDF)
__________Norte Maar is pleased to present a major exhibition surveying new work in pattern, repetition and motif titled between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif. The exhibition will be held at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery (btwn 51st and 52nd Street, NYC) and will open with a public reception on Monday, March 16 from 6-8pm. The show will continue through June 12 with gallery hours Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm. This exhibition continues Norte Maar’s mission of re-presenting and supporting the advancement of innovative and transgressive work of both emerging, mid-career and historic artists.
Curated by Jason Andrew and organized by Norte Maar, this exhibition brings together a diverse selection of artists where pattern, repetition, and motif play vital roles in the inspiration, development and completion of their work. Each has devised a system or strategy for composing ideas, yet all retain a sense of improvisation in the process.
The title takes its cue from a poem by Gertrude Stein, who more than one hundred years ago was seeking a literary equivalent to cubism and attempted in her prose to “banish memory” to “articulate a continuous present where writing recreates itself anew in each successive moment.” Stein’s writing, considered both repetitive and illogical, stretched the medium of fiction and reality, time and place.
The work of these thirty artists should be seen through this early modernist lens.
In their individual way, each, like Stein, use individualized systems to push beyond a mere optical phenomenon, revealing a personal narrative that borders on fictional and real. This unique characteristic introduces new chapter in the history associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970’s.
Featuring works by:
Emily Berger
Samantha Bittman
Jeri Coppola
Paul D'Agostino
Rob de Oude
Lori Ellison
David Fratkin
Hermine Ford
Rico Gatson
Julia K Gleich
Tamara Gonzales
Libby Hartle
Molly Heron
Mary Judge
Robin Kang
Leslie Kerby
Lori Kirkbride
Kerry Law
Margaret Lanzetta
Niki Lederer
David Poppie
John Silvis
Natalie Simon
Andrew Spence
Colin Thomson
Auguste Rhonda Tymeson
Lindsay Walt
Jessica Weiss
Joan Witek
Robert Zakanitch
