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Jonathan Allen will be part of a group exhibit entitled "Liminal Space," showing at THE LAY-UP, and curated by F(R)ICTION PROJECT.
84 South 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Jonathan Allen
Untitled
Jonathan Allen’s collages and paintings combine pop imagery, abstraction and propaganda to reflect the contradictions of our current cultural and political climate. His various media—oil/acrylic, pen and ink, pencil, and newspaper and magazine cuttings—sometimes coalesce in formal harmony, though more often they serve to diagram the breakdowns triggered by irreconcilable clashes in perspective. If culture is a language of forces operating in mixed agreement—desire, ethics, history, money, power—then the unlikely fusions in Allen’s work represent a resonant voice in the conversation of who we are now. That Allen achieves this without sacrificing either aesthetic pleasure or contextual intelligibility is a credit to his resourcefulness and care, allowing for a dense and eccentric vision that lays bare our culture’s often jagged and convoluted messages.
Jonathan Allen grew up in a family of nine in Georgia. In high school he won a scholarship to study painting in New York and now holds a BA in visual arts and art history from Columbia University. He participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space residency program and in The Bronx Museum of Art’s Artist in the Marketplace program, and has exhibited at numerous galleries in New York, including Caren Golden Fine Art, Oliver Kamm/5BE, PS122 and Exit Art. His work recently entered the Microsoft Art Collection and in 2009 was exhibited at Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen. In 2008, Jonathan Allen was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He lives and works in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.
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Adam Courtney
Box Project: Series
I
Adam
Courtney's work involves constructing environments;
sometimes those environments become part
of a photograph
involving models, sometimes
they remain the final product.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
Anne Beck
state
state began with whimsical pictures & apocalyptic
visions of a high-tech synthetic mechanized culture. It became loose
social history & critique. The original manuscript is a handmade
artist’s book made of casein, acrylic, gouache, watercolor,
ink, graphite, collaged bits of etching & drypoint on watercolor
paper, and bound in found printed suede. Anne Beck sees her work
as a visual journal inspired by latent structures, indiscernible
figures, forms that wax and wane, and images and thoughts that coalesce
and dissipate. Underlying her work is a belief that the personal
and universal are not quite mutually exclusive, a reality that is
vital to our ability to communicate and connect.
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Chris O. Cook
To Lose & to
Pretend
“[Cook's book] is evidence of a fine mind at work, a collection
of poems that never settles for the obvious. His work probes the
apathy and alienation of his generation, wielding poetics like a
cudgel to extract the essential from the incoherence of pop culture
vapidity that we have accepted as our metaphor. Startlingly honest,
unafraid of humor, these poems force you to sit down and take notice.”
— Cheeni Rao
“Chris Cook is a true Original, in that he is a Classic.”
— Joyelle McSweeney, author of The Commandrine and Other Poems and Nylund,
the Sarcographer
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Greg Slick
Between Scylla
and Charybdis: the Art of Greg Slick
“The beauty of the photography and paintings of Greg Slick is like that
of his words. They contain the essence of wit, unique insights into today’s
society, and always a kind of humor. It’s a wonderful combination.”
— Minako Yoshino, Artist
Greg Slick was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1961. His work
has been exhibited worldwide, from New York City to Tallinn, Estonia
to Tokyo, Japan. The tension between documentation and representation
is central to Slick's painting, photography, and experimental sculpture.
In 2003, Slick formed the collective Quinn the Eskimo, curating group
exhibitions under its banner. He is currently an Owner/Director of
the artist-owned gallery GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art in
Beacon, New York. He lives and works in New York City and Beacon,
New York.
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Emanuel de Cordova
Letters from a
Pugilist Poet
"It's Rilke with splashes of Denis Johnson, Issa, even a bit
of New York School. It's difficult to pin down. Hard-nosed but contemplative
and elegant, a virtuoso performance by a poet who dances about in
calculated withdraws and attacks."
— The Daily Press
Emanuel de Cordova lives in Florida and New York. |
Joe Millar
Autobiomythography & Gallery
“Joe Millar’s Autobiomythography & Gallery is
the best new book of poetry read by this reviewer this year. It is
incredibly strong.”
—Matt Soucy, reviewing for Coldfront Magazine
Joe Millar is a poet, novelist, and installation artist living in New York
City. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published
his work in such journals as Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Greensboro
Review, Literal Latte and other journals. The manuscript
constituting this first book of poems was shortlisted for the Yale Younger
Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets'
Walt Whitman Award.
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