Current and Upcoming Exhibitions in NYC

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions in NYC:

Journeys at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central at Grand Army Plaza is extended to November 1, 2008!

New Library hours: Sun: 1:00PM-6:00PM; Mon: 9:00AM-6:00PM; Tues: 9:00AM-9:00PM; Wed: 9:00AM-9:00PM; Thurs: 9:00AM-9:00PM; Fri: 9:00AM-6:00PM; Sat: 10:00AM-6:00PM.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/exhibitions/2008/journeys.jsp

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“Homecoming” at ABC No Rio
October 2 to October 29
Opening Reception: Thursday October 2 at 7:00pm


Artists: Meg Escudé, Akiko Ichikawa, Jayson Keeling, Rahul Saggar, Martina Secondo, Chanika Svetvilas, Vandana Jain

In Homecoming, seven artists who were born in the United States or immigrated as children explore the themes of migration, ancestry and returning to their parental homeland.

Meg Escudé traveled to her father’s homeland of Argentina where she discovers the Italian-Brazilian circus, Circo Orlando Orfei, one of the oldest and most traditional of the circuses that still travel throughout Latin America. Living nomadically with the circus enabled her to recreate her idea of self without nationality and to be at home wherever a door was opened to her.

Having grown up in the suburbs of Nashville and Boston, Akiko Ichikawa returned to Japan as an adult, reconnecting with her culture and the familiarity she’d lost through documenting the quotidian aspects of contemporary Japanese life.

Through roughly collaged images, Jayson Keeling explores his relationship to his culturally and spiritually disconnected homeland of Jamaica.

In “I Wish I Was White,” Rahul Saggar explores concepts of skin color, acceptance, belonging and matrimonial prospects both here and in his parents’ home country of India.

While visiting her grandmother in Genova, Martina Secondo Russo discovered a box of photographs her grandfather took as a soldier in Italy’s “Operation Barbarossa” campaign against Russia during World War II. Through reprinting these images, Secondo reconnects with the grandfather she never knew and rediscovers her roots.

Utilizing Campbell’s soup cans, bean sprouts and coconut milk, Chanika Svetvilas challenges our perception of what constitutes American and what is considered “other.”

After spending countless childhood summers visiting her extended family in Madhya Pradseh, Vandana Jain returned as an adult. Her images show the layering of religion, iconography and pattern in a way that felt extremely familiar.

ABC No Rio is located at 156 Rivington Street, between Clinton and Suffolk Streets on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Take the J/M/Z trains to Essex Street or the F train to Delancey Street and walk one block north.

Homecoming
October 2 – October 29, 2008
Opening: Thursday October 2 at 7:00pm
Viewing hours: Sundays 1:00-6:00pm,
Wednesdays & Thursdays 4:00-7:00pm ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(b. Clinton and Suffolk Street)
212.254.3697
www.abcnorio.org

ABC No Rio is a center for art and activism, known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and retains these values to the present.

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“Art and China’s Revolution” exhibition at Asia Society
September 5, 2008 through January 11, 2009
Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, New York
Cost: $10; $7 for seniors and $5 for students with ID; free for members and persons under 16. Admission is free to all Friday 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Asia Society presents Art and China's Revolution, a groundbreaking exhibition that considers the artistic achievement and legacy of one of the most tumultuous and catastrophic periods in recent Chinese history: the three decades following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The exhibition brings together large-scale oil paintings, ink paintings, sculptures, drawings and artist sketchbooks, woodblock prints, posters, and objects from everyday life, many never before shown in the United States. It is the first exhibition to examine in-depth the powerful and complicated effects of Mao Zedong's revolutionary ideals on artists and art production in China.

More info at:
http://www.asiasociety.org/chinarevolution

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“MEDITATION ON CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LANDSCAPE” AT GODWIN-TERNBACH MUSEUM, QUEENS COLLEGE, 10/15 - 12/6/08 Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, October 15, 6 – 7:30 pm

“Meditation in Contemporary Chinese Landscape,” a special exhibition organized by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College and curated by Luchia Meihua Lee, features the work of 12 Chinese artists from Taiwan, China, Malaysia, and the United States. Working in the media of painting, installation, digital, video and photography, these artists capture the spirit of Chinese landscape in contemporary context, using today’s visual language and idioms. Included is work by Queens resident Zhang Hongtu, whose politically charged painting was seized by Chinese customs officials and banned from Beijing exhibition during the recent Olympics. Other artists represented in the exhibition are Arnold Chang (Zhang Hong), Lin Shih Pao, Chin Chih Yang, Huang Guorui, YoYo Xiao(Wei Xiao), Cui Fei, Hai Zhang, Marlene Tseng Yu, Chee Wang Ng, Lin Pey Chwen and Yin Mei Critchell.

More info at:
http://www1.cuny.edu/forum/?p=2838

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