September 16
Invitation to KISMET art opening and cocktail reception
You are invited to the opening of Kismet, an exhibition curated by Heidi Lee featuring new paintings by New York-based independent artists, Azadeh Ghotbi and Michael Rollins.
Art Opening and Cocktail Reception
DATE/TIME Thursday, September 16th, 6:30 – 9:00pm
RSVP: info@HeidiLeeArtAdvisory.com
PLACE: 75 Wall Street, New York, NY
Artwork also featured at Tourbillon Boutique 45 Wall Street, New York, NY
Exhibition open to the public September 17th – September 26th by appointment only. Contact@HeidiLeeArtAdvisory.com
Curator’s Statement:
Persian artist, Azadeh Gohtbi’s latest series, Taking Shape, is inspired by organic shapes, from curvaious cloud formations seen from below to sharp jagged contours of landmasses seen from the air. Paint is projected onto the canvas, transforming itself and evolving into dynamic shapes induced by the artist and a unique mix of controlled and deliberately fortuitous extemporaneous variables.
Her Metallica series follows a layered and complex process. The color scheme is inspired by one of three metallic colors: copper, silver, or gold. The perennial search for the right balance between total control and the elusive element of chance continues. In this series I paint a new work, deconstruct it by cutting it into strips then put it back together like a puzzle. Taken to the extreme an originally large rectangular painting ends up into a square triptych or even a circle with much of the original work hidden behind overlapping pieces of the puzzle.
Michael Rollins
New York based Rollins paintings are lingual abstractions created by the daily stock market ticker as its main formal and conceptual grounding. A stock ticker communicates the universal language of a capitalist economy. The codes and morphology inherent to the stock ticker system are often impossible for the general population to parse. By using a combination of real and imagined stock symbols, Rollins creates a new language – one whose nature is cryptic, yet with a purpose that is implicitly communicative. Fragments of words are combined into new proverbial texts borrowed from such disparate sources as poetry, entertainment tropes, and modern colloquialisms. To absorb the phraseology of each painting is at first disconcerting, with familiar lexical combinations frustratingly difficult to interpret. However, there is a sense of humor at play, as the cracking of the code almost invariably results in a specific kind of rhetorical joke. By placing new limits on a form of vernacular which simultaneously inhibits and creates categorical understanding, the ticker paintings allegorically reference the chaos of communication and the tenuous general perceptions of world markets.
September 16
Christie’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale
London, UK
View Highlights with works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff, Collier Schoor, Nan Goldin, Nobuyoshi Araki and others
2pm South Kensington
September 12
Last Day to see Wangechi Mutu “My Dirty Little Heaven”
Brussels, Belgium
June 25 – September 12 WIELS Contemporary Art Centre Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, B-1190
June 23
Mind Your Figure – DB Projects
Mind Your Figure – DB Projects, June 23, 2010
A group art show featuring works in a variety of media by eight young, New York-based artists defining figuration: Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Kate Gilmore, Megan Hays, M.A.Y.O., Ben Olson, Brian Reed, Christopher Sachs and Haeri Yoo.
April 12
Art Production Fund Birthday Benefit
Date: April 12, 2010, 7-11 pm
Location: On Top of the Standard Hotel
Honoring: “Baby” Jane Holzer and Jennifer McSweeney
Co-Chairs: Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen
Host Committee: Andre Balazs, Lea Carpenter Brokaw, High Bush, Jessica Craig Martin, Mark Fletcher, Casey Fremont, Steven Klein, Amy Sacco, Vanessa Arelle de Peters
Benefit Committee included: Alex & Ada Katz, Rachel Feinstein & John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, Anne Bass & Julian Lethbridge, Amanda Brooks, Amy Astley, Renee Rockefeller, Donna Karan, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Aimee Mullins, Richard Phillips, Cecily Brown, Barbara Gladstone, Vanessa Beecroft, Aaron Young, Tobias Meyer, Todd Eberle, Vito Schnabel, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Marilyn Minter, Arden Wohl, Samantha Boardman & Aby Rosen, Cindy Sherman, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Heidi Lee and many other amazing art world luminaries.
Invite in-kind Design: Richard Pandiscio
Liquor Sponsor: Dom Perignon
EVENT OVERVIEW
Throughout the evening guests participated in “birthday activities” in the adjoining Standard Spa. Including:
- A photo-booth area by Jessica Craig-Martin
- Linda Yablonsky’s personal genius booth
- Kiki Smith- Temporary tattoos made by to keep or wear
- Adam McEwen- re- usable sticker art to keep in goody bag
PERFORMANCES BY
- Fab 5 Freddy will M.C. a set of art and musical performances by:
- Rachel Chandler & Lizzi Bougatsos- DJ’s
- Terence Koh
- Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
- Janelle Monae
LAUNCH
Art Production Fund premiered an edition of plates designed by Rudolf Stingel and produced by the esteemed pany Bernardaud. Visit www.worksonwhatever.com to purchase
