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This exhibition features a collection of more than 30 artists and 17 art groups that have been influential in the development of a new figurative style of contemporary art that developed in Cluj, Romania in the mid 2000′s. The show features a wide range of mediums; paintings, graphics, objects, photos, videos and installations as well as site specific works. The exhibiting artists react with sensitivity to the challenges of the local social and cultural milieu. The displayed works relate to the mechanisms of history and memory, the ambiguities of this transition period, and the changes in ideology in relation to art history and painting traditions.

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Jeff Gabel, Telegram, Graphite on Paper, 9″x6″, 2011

Spencer Brownstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Jeff Gabel; this is the artist’s fifth solo show at the gallery.

For this exhibition, Gabel will be producing a large wall drawing created in-situ at the gallery as well as a new suite of drawings on paper based on the 1935 novel, “Salwàre oder Die Magdalena von Bozen” by Carl Zuckmayer. Translated from its original German, these drawings function as a defined materialization of Gabel’s limited comprehension and experience of the reading material. Gabel’s translations typically attempt a relatively literal portrayal of the content, while largely ignoring editorial conventions and appropriateness of style and voice. Legitimizing this activity through his drawings, they look very much like a dream; highly detailed surreal landscapes in which the subjects and environments melt into an interwoven scene, difficult to define where something begins and ends. The drawings feel very much like the experience of explaining a dream, a moment that we can feel and perceive clearly, but are not able to express verbally.

Throughout the month of April, Gabel will be creating the large wall drawing in the gallery; visitors are welcome to come and view the daily changes of the piece as well as to observe the artist at work.

Jeff Gabel was born in Portland, Oregon raised in Decatur, Nebraska and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving his BFA from Kansas State University, he completed his MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York in 1995. Gabel’s work has most recently been on view at Monanism, the opening exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana; the Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal; Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, New York; White Columns and Artist’s Space, New York; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina.

This work has been featured in GAGARIN: THE ARTIST IN THEIR OWN WORDS magazine, based in Antwerp, Belgium.
For more information about GAGARIN or to buy a copy of the magazine visit, www.gagarin.be.

The gallery will open its doors to the public April 10, 2012.
Visitors are welcome to come view the work in progress.

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Artists: Christian Floquet, Jean-Luc Manz, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Ian Anüll, Claudia Compte, Mai-Thu Perret, John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, John Trembley, Dan Walsh, David Malek, Lisa Beck, Jakob Kassay, Emil-Michael Klein, Flora Klein, Richard Kirwan, Stéphane Kropf

Tell The Children / Abstraction Pour Enfants is a proposal by the Swiss artist Francis Baudevin which refers to Andy Warhol’s Children’s Book produced in 1983 at Galerie Bischofberger of Zurich. At La Salle de Bains in Lyon, Baudevin takes the side of the cover or remake because fits the display abstract painting that Warhol had designed for his Pop works. Abstract painting, mainly geometric, is presented here to the tune of children so they can fully enjoy the works and, perhaps, see what we no longer see as adults. This exhibition is both a work in itself, an installation and a free hand. It invites us to find our inner child and to unlearn or better (re) learn to look at abstraction. Commissioned by Francis and Caroline Baudevin Be Petithomme

The artworks in Hunters and Hunted glorify, interpret, question and comment on our relationship with nature. They reflect on the idea that we are living in an information society influenced by media and technology and have drifted away from our natural habitats. Nature is a constant but endangered reality following its own rules in the context of the unstoppable flow of our electronic time.

The focus of this exhibition is the richest species of animals: insects. Small and bothersome, as well fascinating in their diversity, they evoke all sorts of reactions. Insects will be presented in photographs, drawings, sculptures and media-supported installations. The works evoke themes such as ecological disasters, climate change, population explosion and extinction of species.

Participating artists:  Jennifer Angus, Jana Eske, Jan Fabre, Lili Fischer, Tessa Farmer, Kirsten Geisler, Douglas Gordon, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger , Sanna Kannisto, Katharina Meldner, Lucy Powell, Bärbel Rothhaar, Günther & Loredana Selichar, Polonca Lovsin, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Eva Teppe, Mark Thompson, Evgenija Wassilew, 
Liao Wenfeng.

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Participating Artists: Charbel Ackerman, Brass Art, David Cotterrell, Tom Dale, Simon Faithfull, Jem Finer, Oliver Grossetete, Hilary Jack, Juneau Projects, Dinu Li, Pointfive, Aura Satz, Ultimate Holding Company, Sarah Woodfine and Tessa Farmer.

This third edition of the Biennial considers the human urge to fly, to accomplish the impossible in fragile times. Its artists are considering the impact of experimentation on delicate eco-systems, looking backward and forward for guidance, wisdom and/or humour. Their proposed results are experiments in time and space. In 2012, artists are bringing their own responses to the precarious nature of human flight, the historical relationship between Tatton Park and the aviation industry, the inexorable development of our technologies and their applications and miscommunications in the post-global virtual village.

Tessa’s work for the Biennial will take the form of an elaborate installation in the Mansion, considering the many animals that have visited space in human-made crafts. Her practice involves the creation of detailed narratives in which malevolent fairies overpower and ultimately decimate their host environments.

Skip Arnold will be participating in Santa Monica Museum of Art’s annual exhibition, Incognito on March 17th. Over 600 original artworks made by over 500 artists will be up for grabs, including works by world renowned artists: John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Mark Bradford, Marco Brambilla, Judy Chicago, Kim McCarty, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Betye Saar, Mickalene Thomas, William Wegman, and Spencer Brownstone Gallery’s Skip Arnold, to name a few. Attendees will have to rely on their personal taste in choosing what to purchase, because all the works, signed only on the back, remain anonymous until they have been paid for and picked up.

For the first time ever this year the museum will be hosting Precognito, a preview for Incognito on Thursday March 15th

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Cécile B. Evans, Straight Up, HD, 7min, looped, 2011

Spencer Brownstone Gallery is pleased to present ‘Straight Up’, 2011, a new video work by Berlin based artist Cécile B. Evans. In this piece the artist performs an interpretive sign language version of Paula Abdul’s 1988 number one single, “Straight Up”. It is, at first glance, an unencumbered cover of Pina Bausch’s ‘Nelken’, 1982, in which a man spells out Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” in sign language as the soundtrack plays in the background, progressively picking up speed. Over the course of ‘Straight Up’, the choreography begins to deteriorate in parallel, becoming less precise, and more organic. As the piece progresses a series of glittery effects are implemented onto the composition, emphasizing this deterioration and further blurring emotional boundaries between the subjective and objective. Meanwhile, Abdul’s score, replaced by an adaptation composed by singer and pop-songwriter Mati Gavriel, culminates in an additional disorienting plane of removal between the visual and aural, the mental and physical, and the dramatic and real.

Cécile B. Evans was born in 1983, in The United States of America and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She received her B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Evans has participated in exhibitions at the Bergen Kuntsmuseum, Norway; Exit Art in New York City and the Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany.

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This exhibition is in collaboration with Armory Arts Week 2012.

The gallery will be open for the Armory Arts Week SoHo Night:

Thursday March 8, 2012, 10am – 9pm

Click here to read an interview with Cecile on Art Slant

Check out her website here: Cecile B. Evans

Opening: Friday, 20 April 2012
Olivier Mosset ++ Leaving the Museum
Kunsthalle Zürich at Museum Bärengasse

The Kunsthalle Zürich will mark the end of its temporary exhibition activity at the Museum Bärengasse with a project by Swiss artist Olivier Mosset, which was developed especially for the exhibition space at the Museum Bärengasse.

The exhibition is staged in 16 rooms of the Museum Bärengasse and presents a range of works, which have been integrated into the features of the space. Leaving the Museum combines a large selection of Mosset’s paintings with works created in collaboration with other artists, works which arose in his circle and works inspired by him. Olivier Mosset approaches the Museum Bärengasse’s numerous individual rooms as individual exhibitions in themselves, which together provide an insight into his wide-ranging œuvre and artistic practice.

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Jeff Gabel has been included in the latest edition of Gagarin – the artists in their own words. His new work entitled: “The Very Best of Firmin Graf Salawàr dej Striës : an illustrative compilation taken from Salware oder Die Magdalena von Bozen by Carl Zuckmayer” combines rich illustrations with extensive handwritten text.

For more information or to buy the catalogue go to Gagarin’s website