Dear friends---

Please join us at Projekt722 this Saturday evening,  January 12th, from 6-9pm, for the opening reception of Recluse.   

We are very excited for this show featuring work by Maria Kondratiev and Joe Sossi. 

Hope you can make it!

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Maria Kondratiev. Reflection. 2012. Acrylic on canvas. Joseph Sossi. Ring Road. 2010. Oil on canvas. Recluse Maria Kondratiev and Joseph Sossi Curated by Hilary Doyle & Reid Hitt January 12 - January 27 Projekt722 722 Metropolitan Ave, Second Floor Brooklyn, NY 11211 12pm - 6pm, Saturdays & Sundays Opening Reception: Saturday, January 12 6-9pm In Recluse, Maria Kondratiev and Joseph Sossi both create psychological landscapes that are quiet, emotional and ethereal. Both painters work intuitively from memory and imagination. These desolate spaces redefine landscape painting as exterior space begins to reveal a deeper interior. These works exhibit the language of the subconscious, where one might discover mysterious imagery, connections and meaningful symbols through the painting process. Maria Kondratiev's imaginative paintings oscillate between abstraction and narrative. Her alla-prima minimal outdoor spaces contain dreamlike figures that come in and out of focus. The figure floats away and suddenly all that is left is a dark forest, or mountains at midnight or midday. This reclusive viewer stands both inside the painting while outside looking in. This viewer contemplates the landscape or his own reflection with a combination of familiarity, bewilderment and awe. The recluse here might also represent the anonymous and always alone painter/viewer, fluctuating between the two. Or maybe the recluse represents the isolated experiences we all have and never share. Joseph Sossi's paintings harbor a discreet power similar to the force of an old tree or an engulfing sky. This work captures the existential isolation of a lonely traveler in imagery and feeling. Joseph Sossi approaches his work the way a caterpillar might spin itself into a cocoon; the work happens in layers, each informing the next. He is taking the essence of memory and breaking it down to its essential parts. We can see nature’s reoccurring veiling of what's underneath. His representational works recall memories of road trips in unfamiliar landscapes. As in the painting process, the journey itself appears to be the destination.

Super Natural

September 7 - October 14
12pm - 6pm, Saturdays & Sundays.
Corey Corcoran
Judy Glantzman
Loie Hollowell
Maria Kondratiev
Bruce Wilhelm
Curated by Hilary Doyle & Reid Hitt
Judy Glantzman appears courtesy Betty Cunningham Gallery.
Bruce Wilhelm appears courtesy Mulherin + Pollard.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 6-9 pm

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Corey Corcoran. Net. Etching into Conk mushroom (Ganoderma applanatum). Specimen approximately 6" - 12" in length.

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Take just the top inch of soil, the world squirming right under my palms. In the top inch of forest soil, biologists found 'an average of 1,356 living creatures present in each square foot, including 865 mites, 265 spring tails, 22 millipedes, 19 adult beetles and various numbers of 12 other forms Had an estimate also been made of the microscopic population, it might have ranged up to two billion bacteria and many millions of fungi, protozoa and algae-in a mere teaspoonful of soil.' The chrysalids of butterflies linger here too, folded, rigid, and dreamless. I might as well include these creatures in this moment, as best I can. My ignoring them won't strip them of their reality, and admitting them, one by one, into my consciousness might heighten mine, might add their dim awareness to my human consciousness...
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The term supernatural literally translates from Latin to mean "exceeding nature". The word pertains to forces and phenomena imagined to exist beyond known science and nature. Humans lived exposed to nature, in fear, for thousands of years. Today, we often experience nature though TV, horror movies or brief visits to the woods, keeping the environment estranged from us. As Corey Corcoran puts it he is " Drawing upon everything from science fiction to houseplants to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, I consider my recent body of work as visual ecosystems." The narratives in these works are set in ambiguous landscapes charged with primal and psychological symbols. Sometimes the nightmares in these artists work may stand in for an inner struggle or a war torn world, as in the paintings of Goya or Nancy Spero. These artists believe in the world beyond the looking glass or picture plane where each image or creature is culled from a place of suspended disbelief where anything is possible.
The works in Super Natural reveal a world beyond the ordinary one we know. Here we can see new worlds inspired by things we've seen but with re-imagined outcomes. These works grow, glow, and writhe as though frozen before us as the landscape suddenly opens its eyes. As in a dream, we never question the truth shown to us, because the reality of the material here keeps us in suspense between disenchantment and seduction. This work keeps us here and now in a spell cast with evident materials, humor and imagination.

Please check out the new issue of Gigantic!

"Blue women with coffee stain"

"Siblings"

AN EXQUISITE CORPSE by Dan Bevacqua, Anelise Chen, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Lynne Tillman
LOOPING DEBILITY CRISIS: a conversation between Gary Lutz, Mary Caponegro, and Tim Horvath
FABLE by Lena Bertone
BUCKETS by Brian Kubarycz
SHEET MUSIC by Matt Dennison
THE SMALLEST WOMAN by Daniel Borzutzky
ARMOUR BRAND DESICCATED THYROID BOTTLE (C. 1900) by James McGirk
All art by Maria Kondratiev.

"Please Save Maria Kondratiev" with Katie Mullins & zine library

Saturday, September 17 at 7:00pm - September 18 at 1:00am
Darling House, 496 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
We are located at the corner of Broadway and Union - Lorimer JMZ, Broadway G, or a ten minute walk from the Lorimer L. Look for the glass door, ring top buzzer.

Please join us for an evening with new paintings and drawings by Brooklyn-based artist Maria Kondratiev. In addition to the works created in her studio, Maria is bringing a can of paint and a brush to prepare a kind of anti-trompe l'oeil throughout our living space. Her forms transcribed from dreams - drawn resolutely yet impulsively, whimsical and depressed - hint at the underbelly of yearning. At the same time they address the... necessary human thing that is desire, and the humorous thing that is emerging self-awareness.
Music will be provided by the wonderful Katie Mullins. (http://katiemullinsmusic.com/)
Coinciding with the Brooklyn Book Festival we will also be hosting a small zine library featuring chapbooks by James Yeh, illustrated by Andrew Bulger, interview and other booklets by Temporary Services, prints by Rand Renfrow, and comics by Mark Hensel. Zines will be available for purchase.

Charlie Horse presents A Dry Run
Opening Reception June 25th 6-8:30pm
Gallery will be open 12-6pm June 26, 27 and 28th and by appointment only through July 16th, 2009.
28 Marcy Ave., ground floor, between Metropolitan Ave. and Hope St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Directions by subway: Take the L train to Lorimer Street, exit at Metropolitan and Lorimer. Walk west on Metropolitan (under the BQE) approx. two blocks, turn left on Marcy Ave. and walk 1/2 block south. The gallery is across the street from the basketball courts.

come to open studios this friday!

Upcoming show: "Confluence" Opens April 10th

Confluence: a place where things merge or flow together. This is the theme for our upcoming show. The concept is bringing in visiting artists from various place and merge together with a local artist. This concept brings perspectives that we may not get here in Eastern Oregon and an opportunity to view interesting new works. So we thought it was a good idea.
We will be featuring the work of Nathan Orton (Portland, OR), Maria Kondratiev (New York), and some additional works by our own Eric Coon.
Please plan to join us for the opening reception. 6-9pm on Friday April 10th, 2009.
More information and complete show details coming soon. Please check the website for updates.