Art Events

Nov 29th Lecture: James Siena, Painter
6:30pm New York Studio School 8 W 8th Street (212) 673-6466

Dec 14th Lecture: Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic, The New York Times
6:30pm New York Studio School 8 W 8th Street (212) 673-6466

Jan 24th Lecuture: Laurie Anderson, Performance & MultiMedia
6:30pm New York Studio School 8 W 8th Street (212) 673-6466

Go here for a long list of openings: http://dks.thing.net/BigSept-8-05.html

SCULPTURE CENTER, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City
(718) 361-1750 www.sculpture-center.org

Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan by Robert Smithson
where: Pier 46 (Hudson River Park at Charles and West St, 212.431.7165)
Seminal earthworks artist Robert Smithson's plans for Floating Island were conceived in 1970 — inspired in part by his long-standing fascination with Central Park landscaper Frederick Law Olmsted — but never realized during the artist's lifetime. Now, as part of an ongoing retrospective, the Whitney Museum in conjunction with public arts organization Minetta Brook actualizes that vision, landscaping a 2,700-square foot barge with earth, rocks, and native trees. Circumnavigating Manhattan over two weekends for a scheduled 12 hours each day, the work is a reimagined fragment of both New York City and Robert Smithson, as well as a timely and quixotic escape from the limits of our man-made confines.
Note: Floating Island will circumnavigate Manhattan Sun 9.18 (8am-8pm) and Sat 9.24 & Sun 9.25 (8am-8pm). For additional information visit the Minetta Brook website.

Exhibition dates: September 11 - October 9
In the Main Space: Lara Schnitger: blacks on blonds
Triple Candie is pleased to present a new large-scale installation by Haarlem (Netherlands)-born, Los Angeles-based Lara Schnitger-the artist's first large-scale project in New York.
"Blacks on Blonds" [sic] consists of three elements. The first is a ribbon that will zigzag from column to column like the plastic yellow tape in a crime scene, creating smaller spaces within Triple Candie's Main Space. The ribbon will contain highly suggestive text taken from pornographic advertisements.
"Nothing in Schnitger's repertoire is out of bounds. The work is set free from the inhibitions of taste and becomes an extension of her every impulse, influence, and provocation…. In a typically Dutch move, she subverts the common sex laws by removing the shame and taboos that inspire the crime."-Matthew Monahan
The ribbon will enclose two huge semi-transparent sculptures, made from a variety of fabrics stretched over wooden armatures. One will be primarily pink, the other brown. They will reveal their armatures, making them seem naked, and will appear to be interfering or having intercourse with each other.
"The instability of Schnitger's work comes from its will to live, its wild over-extension and daring stance. It says to you: 'This body of ours is in constant revolt against the abominable farce of having to endure…. Our molecules can't wait to get lost in the universe! We'd burst if we had the courage' (Celine).-Matthew Monahan
TIP-OFF exhibition series / curated by Nari Ward
Jeffrey Hatfield: new work
Triple Candie is pleased to present the first in a series of three exhibitions curated by the artist Nari Ward. The series introduces the work of three emerging New York artists.
Hatfield's exhibition will consist of two elements: a tile-covered, 400-pound rocket that hangs from the ceiling, and a molecular structure. Of the rocket, the artist says: "The bomb finds itself to be a relic, lost among the other debris from the 20th century.  It somehow straddles the fence between power and impotency, and operates, for me, with a self-awareness that is partially shameful and responsible." The molecular structure is based on the Bohr Model (developed in 1915 to describe the orbit-like relationship of electrons to a central nucleus). The Hatfield Model, however, substitutes basketball-sized, paper maché pig heads for the electrons. Its configuration is that of a molecule of fecal matter.
New Façade Project
Emily Cheng a diptych mural
A new 8' x 16' diptych mural on Triple Candie's façade that conflates natural symbols from Western and Eastern painting traditions. One panel features the branches of a tree radiating outwards from the center-as though viewed from underneath-against a bright blue sky. The center, or focal point, contains a stylized cloud painted after those found in Italian early Renaissance paintings. The other panel consists of an emblematic form based on Chinese cloud collars-stylized cloud shapes that were worn around the neck over a garment. The center of the panel contains a Taoist plant shape that represents the notion of chi, or energy.
Directions: Triple Candie is located at 461 West 126th Street, just east of Amsterdam Avenue. By subway, take the A, B, C, or D train to 125th Street, walk north 1 block to 126th, then west 1 3/4 blocks.
Triple Candie is a not-for-profit contemporary arts venue in Central Harlem.
For More Information visit us on-line at www.triplecandie.org, or call (212) 865-0783.