Postmasters Gallery
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Monica Cook, Succi, 2008, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
December 9 - January 8, 2010 opening reception: Thursday December 9 6-8 pm
EAT ME! A show about indulgence in edibles and copulation organized by PAULINA BEBECKA
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PLAYLIST selections of favorite online videos by artists, writers and musicians organized by PADDY JOHNSON (Art Fag City) with STEVEN STERN
EAT ME! organized by PAULINA BEBECKA
During the month of continuous celebrations let�s rejoice in the most important activities of our lives, the consumption of edibles and copulation with a show of works by SEAN BLUECHEL, MONICA COOK, MICHAEL MEADS, and MARILYN MINTER. The exhibition is set to music: S MARK GUBB's church organ interpretation of the Europe's very fitting tune "The Final Countdown".
It is quite obvious that eating and fornicating are activities residing on top of the list for beings of all sorts, including the Homo sapiens. If we could have our way, we would probably spend our entire days just nibbling, grazing, and devouring food as well as our sexual partners, be it a person, another animal, or our own hand. These corporal activities are complicated by our inherent gluttony and insatiable desires; where the need for eating and reproducing is indisputable, the �perversion [here] is the exercise of a desire which serves no purpose, like the exercise of the body which gives itself up to love with no intention of procreation.�[1] MONICA COOK�s painting, �Succi,� lures us with a literal clusterfuck of insatiable indulgence while MICHAEL MEADS�s photographic portraits provide an insight into young men�s minds and their imaginative sexual explorations, which took place in his studio during the '90s. SEAN BLUECHEL�s work is a portion of absurdity and humor with a dash of perversion and a pinch of ridicule, served on standard white paper, finished with a sharpie. These drawings provoke us to recognize and face, with laughter or discomfort our own dirty minds. If anyone can make peas or lemons look sexy, MARILYN MINTER is the champion; here we present six paintings from the series 100 Food Porn. Instead of discussing it in much more detail, as we all know these activities too well; I won�t write a PhD about it, I�ll just show you what happened when these artists encountered, thought about, twisted and churned out work with food and sex in mind. (-Paulina Bebecka)
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PLAYLIST organized by PADDY JOHNSON (Art Fag City) with STEVEN STERN
A response to �Play�, the Guggenheim�s recent YouTube exhibition and exercise in co-branding, �Playlist� is about how people actually use online video today. It�s a peek at the �favorites� of a select group of artists, writers, and musicians; an exercise in sharing, taking place in the old-fashioned realm of actual public space. It doesn�t add anything new to the world--instead, it looks at the strange archival richness that�s already there on the Net.
Contributors include WILL BRAND, DANIEL DAVIDSON, TRICIA KEIGHTLEY, ANNA MCCARTHY, MOMUS, JAVIER MORALES, SHANA MOULTON, JEAN-MICHEL REED, and AMY YAO.
SPECIAL EVENTS
CROSS(X) SPECIES ADVENTURE CLUB DINNER Sunday, December 19, 2010
7pm Dinner 4pm Gastronomical Workshop 9am Adventure Club tour of local oyster repopulation projects
Seats are strictly limited - please contact us for full schedule and availability.
Our own environmental artist/genius NATALIE JEREMIJENKO and molecular gastronomist superstar MIHIR DESAI will host another Cross(x) Species Adventure Club Dinner at Postmasters Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition EAT ME!
Cross(x)Species Adventure Club will explore the pleasures of the pleasure-driven activities presented at Postmasters Gallery; will investigate how do our personal and public pleasures become a potent force of social and environmental transformation? Furthermore, in the season of excess, we will examine how the excesses of the seasons seem to promote the pro-pleasure approach ecologically, and will provide a map of continued ecological and edible adventures for the new year.
A special non-human guest will be the seasonal aphrodisiac and local environmental hero, Crassostrea virginica, or the eastern oyster, and, for the hardy, we will venture to local bi-valves restoration sites.
The Cross(x)Species Adventure Club is an ongoing lifestyle experiment to explore a tasty bio-diverse future. This supper club will present 5 courses of foods delicious and nutritious to both humans and nonhumans, with wine, beer and edible cocktail pairing and a take-home.
For more information about the Cross(x) Specie Adventure Club please visit: http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/xooz/projects/xspecies-adventure-club/
Click here for a detailed interview about the Cross(x) Species Dinners http://www.ediblegeography.com/cross-species-dining-an-interview-with-natalie-jeremijenko-and-mihir-desai/
MARISA JAHN BYPRODUCT: ON THE EXCESS OF EMBEDDED ART PRACTICES Sunday, December 12, 2010, 2 - 5pm
Conversation/artists' presentations on Embedded Art Practices at Postmasters Gallery
For more information about the book and related events please visit: http://rev-it.org/projects/byproduct.htm
We are pleased to announce:
KATARZYNA KOZYRA
Solo exhibition "Casting" at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
December 4, 2010 - February 13, 2011
For more information please visit: www.zacheta.art.pl/en/page/view/10/exhibitions-current
Postmasters Gallery located at 459 West 19th Street between 9 and 10 avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 � 6 pm Please contact Magdalena Sawon or Paulina Bebecka with questions and image requests: [email protected] www.postmastersart.com
[1]Roland Barthes, �Reading Brillat-Savarin,� in The Rustle of Language, trans. Richard Howard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), p. 251.
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