Tonight! CCNY Conversation Series

Keren Moscovitch in a conversation with Allen Frame about Me Into You and book signing!

Keren Moscovitch, "Last Night," 2010

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 7–9pm
SVA Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor
Free admission, please bring photo ID for building entry!

Keren Moscovitch, "Sucking," 2009

SVACE faculty member, summer residency director, and photographer extraordinaire Keren Moscovitch presents Me Into You, a self-published limited edition monograph contextualized within her experiences in an open relationship. The body of work investigates both the limits and infinite possibility of intimacy, and what happens when one’s intimate life starts to lack boundaries. She will be joined in conversation by essayist and photographer Allen Frame in a discussion about photography, intimacy and the intersection between the two.

The event will be followed by a Q&A session and book signing.

Keren Moscovitch, "My First Time Watching," 2009

Tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SVACE instructor Ofri Cnaani debuts Seven Words, a multimedia installation featuring original, live-mixed video!  The work combines the music of Haydn with prints from the Museum’s collection.  The artist writes:

Screen simulation of "Seven Words" by Ofri Cnaani

“Seven Words formed into a piece about reading and writing—translating times and eras, languages and cultures—and the various toolboxes used to create and transform meanings. While the piece revolves around a moment of an extreme physicality, ecstasy, and final surrender, I was looking at more nuanced, metaphorical visual moments that capture the core idea of transformation and generate a conversation between those who write culture and their readers.”

This concert will be live-streamed from the Met’s website.

Jack Lavender with UK gallery The approach at Independent 2013

Independent, now in its fourth year, features 40+ galleries, non-profits, and publications representing fourteen countries.  Big, established galleries participate, such as Gavin Brown, Andrew Kreps, and Bortolami alongside founder Elizabeth Dee; as do competitive, emerging galleries, like 47 Canal, Bureau, and Broadway 1602.

(l-r) Leo Gabin at Elizabeth Dee, Richard Aldrich at Bortolami, Leo Gabin at Eliz Dee

Jack Lavender at The approach

This year’s edition celebrated the non-profit institutions in New York that suffered worst by Hurricane Sandy.  Independent endowed all participating non-profits with the $10,000-dollar Privatus Prize. That includes the Kitchen, Printed Matter, White Columns, and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.

Alex Dordoy, "Milk and silk" series, 2013 at The Modern Institute

Thomas Bayrle wallpaper with Kerstin Brätsch video at Gavin Brown

Maybe I had inhaled too much snow on Friday morning, but I noticed, among other things, a special place among several galleries for a comic aesthetic.  Why so much “cartoony-woony” imagery?  Are we that happy?  Maybe everyone is relieved that the election is over.  Maybe unemployment is down yet again, while the stock market is up.  Then again, none of the cartooning imagery is “funny.”

(l-r) Sam Pulitzer at Real Fine Art, Jordan Wolfson

(l-r) Anne Neukamp at Galerija Gregor Podnar and Tom Holmes at Bureau

Who wore it best?

Tom Holmes with Bureau Gallery at Independent 2013

Brandon Lattu with Leo Koenig at The Armory Show 2013

(l-r) Tom Holmes, "untitled Arrangement," 2012; Brandon Lattu, "Necker Package, Twelve Year Difference," 2001-2013 diptych

Cary Leibowitz (Candyass) at The Armory Show: