FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: 

Samuel W. Kho, Gallery Curator

All Things Project @ NCGV

626.757.5600

Sam.k.100@gmail.com

SARAH CRUMLICH: LIFESCAPES

March 22 –  April 28, 2012

Momentary Expression: Gertrude, 2011

Oil on panel, 7 x7 in. 

All Things Project is pleased to present SARAH CRUMLICH: LIFESCAPES, paintings by the artist intently examining portrait and landscape traditions. However familiar shared natural vistas may be, certain human and topographical features are rarely discussed at length– even more seldom, carefully gazed upon. Our ‘scapes in life are lost on us on the way to . . . 

Certainly, All Things Project has many times presented humanity in its passionate extremes (Figure Us Fancy or Jonathan Cowan: After Your Revolution just to name two). In this exhibition, painter Sarah Crumlich steadies our attention towards the quieter in-betweens of life: to creases and wrinkles, on aged physicality, a slow-burning glow, a sustaining smile somewhere. The paintings, many intimate in scale, are another level away from the spectacularized, techno-geeky, youth-worshipping, buy-able landscape with which we are accustomed. So . . . Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go! 

Sarah Crumlich writes, “What I’ve come to call ‘Lifescapes’ affords a moment, an impression of a very precious fragment of time and knowing to be cherished.”

(More of artist at: www.psuchekaisoma.blogspot.com)

SARAH CRUMLICH: LIFESCAPES is the first exhibition presented by All Things Project in 2012, the fourth year for the gallery organized by curator Samuel W. Kho. The curatorial appointment is made possible by a generous grant from the Mustard Seed Foundation, matched by individual gifts. All Things Project and its gallery are part of the Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village (NCGV), a house of worship that supports cutting-edge visual practices, thoughtful lectures, as well as music and spoken word performances. More info at http://www.allthingsproject.wordpress.com and http://www.ncgv.net.

Opening reception: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, March 22, 2012

(Artist’s talk with curator at 7:00 p.m.)

SARAH CRUMLICH: LIFESCAPES

March 22 – April 28, 2012

Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12:00 – 6:00 p.m., or by appointment

Admission is free and open to the public

All Things Project @ NCGV

269 Bleecker Street 

New York, NY 10014 

(Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)

(Subways A, C, E // B, D, F, V to West 4th ; 1 to Christopher St.)

www.allthingsproject.wordpress.com

626.757.5600/ 212.691.1770

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CONGRATULATIONS!!

Congrats to WIND REFLECTION artists . .

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Lili Chin was selected to design the cover of summer 2011 calendar for NYC’s revered theater and institution, Anthology Film Archives. Featuring a still image of spider and web from her WIND REFLECTION video, of course!

Abraham Storer won a Fulbright Fellowship, traveling to Israel. And that’s after managing money, people, and behind-the-scenes things at MoMA.

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What a summer. Congrats to these two talented artists who, like so many ATP artists, go on to exceptional endeavors.

Opening this Friday . . (Full press release)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: 

Samuel W. Kho, Gallery Curator

All Things Project @ NCGV

626.757.5600

Sam.k.100@gmail.com

WIND REFLECTION

Works by Lili Chin and Abraham Storer

June 10 –  July 23, 2011

“The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.” (Ecclesiastes 1:6)

All Things Project is pleased to present WIND REFLECTION: Works by Lili Chin and Abraham Storer. The installation consists of organically dyed fabrics and a video by Lili Chin, in conjunction with selected paintings by Abraham Storer. Three brief statements by the artists and the gallery curator serve to describe the installation and triangulate its conception.

“Last summer I spent time observing and shooting spider webs in rural Maine. I became fascinated with the juxtaposition of their lightness and fragility, and the strength of their construction. This small animal stitches together a beautiful foundation as a constant and instinctual act of survival. With the space at All Things Project, my impulse was to begin with a foundation influenced by that of a spider’s web.  Fragile and light, hand-dyed muslin covers the space’s interior, pointing to the physical interaction between body and fabric—my act of staining woven cotton with organic materials such as tea, hibiscus, wine, and blackberries.  The staining will continue throughout the duration of the show, as the already stained muslin remembers the footprints of its visitors.” (Lili Chin, more at http://vimeo.com/user1686401)

“Having grown up by the ocean, when I return home and look at the water I experience something both comforting and melancholic.  The ocean remains constant while everything else changes: people marry, divorce, have children, experience love and betrayal, buy houses, lose jobs, and grow old.  Despite the way time passes so aggressively, the landscape exists as a transcendent moment of silence and stillness.  It is a foil to our mortality – a witness to loss but also a portal into something eternal and constant that extends beyond our individual lives.” (Abraham Storer, more at http://abrahamstorer.com/home.html)

“I became acquainted with Lili Chin and Abraham Storer when they began to gather with other Skowhegan residency alumni to discuss perennial issues surrounding “Art and Spirituality.” I took part, being very much interested in how philosophical ideas from Wassily Kandinsky or G.W.F. Hegel are being re-interpreted by artists of our time. This exhibition, Wind Reflection, became a reality out of that close engagement. As is so often the case in this little church, with its growing exhibition history, this particular collaboration provokes attention to a wealth of dialectics (a type of “Reflection”) between transcendence and immanence, the sacred and profane, the natural world and humankind.” (Samuel W. Kho, Gallery Curator)

WIND REFLECTION // Works by Lili Chin and Abraham Storer is the second full-length exhibition presented by All Things Project in 2011, the third year for the gallery organized by curator Samuel W. Kho. The curatorial appointment is made possible by a generous grant from the Mustard Seed Foundation, matched by individual gifts. All Things Project and its gallery are part of the Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village (NCGV), a house of worship that supports cutting-edge visual practices, thoughtful lectures, as well as music and spoken word performances. More info at www.allthingsproject.wordpress.com and www.ncgv.net.

Opening reception:  7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Friday, June 10, 2011

(Artists talk with curator at 8:00 p.m.)

WIND REFLECTION

Works by Lili Chin and Abraham Storer

June 10 – July 23, 2011

Gallery Hours (Summer): Fridays and Saturdays 2:00 – 6:00 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free and open to the public

All Things Project @ NCGV

269 Bleecker Street 

New York, NY 10014 

(Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)

(Subway A,C,E // B,D,F,V – West 4^th / 1 – Christopher St.)

 www.allthingsproject.wordpress.com 

626.757.5600/ 212.691.1770

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ALFREDO MARTINEZ, Untitled (Map), 2011

Untitled (Map), 2011, detail

Images from ‘Alfredo Martinez: New Work After China’

“Institutional Critique” ?

“How can independent cultural practices resist the instrumental power of official culture, with its formalization, fixity, monumentality, and hierarchy?”
(Lauri Firstenberg, Institutional Critique and After, 2006)

ALFREDO MARTINEZ: New Work After China February 24 – April 9, 2011

“He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares . . . Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” (Book of Isaiah 2:4)

“Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ” (Book of Joel 3:10)

Allthingsproject is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Alfredo Martinez, the first after his three-year experience in China. Martinez was missing the ol’ “True Grit” of New York City, and so he went to work overseas. He brought back homey tales, such as of donkeys carrying coal in Beijing streets, but he also barely escaped, after three weeks of harrowing detainment by their secret police. His friends include those in the highest levels of China’s cultural elite; but true to form, his recent travails supersede his previous, news-making incarceration for forging Basquiats.

Of course, his dearest subject matter remains the Gun. Alfredo Martinez may just be the Jules Winnfield (“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance . . .”) in the Pulp Fiction of the contemporary art world. Martinez the artist-philosopher and d-i-y weapons master holds the rationale for why the gunslinger steps out of retirement, or what forces the hand of the everyday farmer, or where the ethics could be in aesthetics. His drawings of weaponry are emblematic of present society: efficient, potent, lethal. Irrationality cannot simply be displaced with modern rationality, but rather, finds salvation in prophecies of when Chronos is visited by the Kairos of God– that one day, weapons of war could be elegaic, composed shards viewed only in museums. Then and only then, old soldiers retire for good.

A Timeline About the Artist

1967– Raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; and Pennsylvania

1989– After time working in Central America, joins US Army, plays loanshark to soldiers; also stations in Europe

1994– Involved in both East Village art and LES hardcore punk scenes; included in Pat Hearn Gallery’s “Skater Angels”; works for arms dealer in Paris, polishing weapons knowledge

1999– Included in PS1’s “Generation Z” exhibition; had been weapons advisor for Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog (1999) and Henry Bean’s The Believer (2001); Creates and supervises active shooting range for ‘Quiet’, produced by Josh Harris and Leo Koenig, documented within Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public (2009)

2002-2004– Arrest by FBI and jail for Basquiat-related art forgery. Hunger strikes in prison return his art-making privileges. Works assembled in one-man show at The Proposition gallery in Chelsea.

2005– Included in MoMA’s Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection; also Hello Kitty 30th Anniversary, Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2007-2010– Lives and works in Beijing, China; interrogation and detainment over three weeks before being deported back to United States

2009– We Live in Public wins Best Documentary at Sundance Festival

2010– Exhibits at White Box, SCOPE Miami

ALFREDO MARTINEZ: New Work After China is the first exhibition of Allthingsproject in 2011, the third year of exhibitions organized by curator Samuel Kho. The curatorial appointment is made possible by a generous grant from the Mustard Seed Foundation, matched by individual gifts. Allthingsproject and its gallery are part of the Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village (NCGV), a house of worship that unabashedly supports cutting-edge visual practices, thoughtful lectures, as well as music and spoken word performances. More info at http://www.allthingsproject.wordpress.com and http://www.ncgv.net.

Opening reception: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Thursday, February 24, 2011
(Artist Talk with curator begins at 8:00 p.m.; Jay Double Okay music at 8:30 p.m.; Suggested Admission $5)

ALFREDO MARTINEZ: New Work After China
February 24 – April 9, 2011
Please call for gallery hours or to make an appointment
Admission is free and open to the public

Allthingsproject @ NCGV
269 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10014
Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
(Subway A,C, E, B,D,F,M – West 4/ 1, Christopher St.) www.allthingsproject.wordpress.com; www.ncgv.net
626.757.5600/ 212.691.1770

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