COMING SOON...!!!

TOMPKINS SQUARE SHOW

March 8 - April 8, 2006
Opening reception: March 11, 6-8pm


Charlie Balletto, Graciela Cassel, Ben Cell, Jennifer Elia, Maria Dieppa, Miguel Loredo, Michael Norkin, Nina Teglio, Jongwang Lee, Allan Jay, Ramirex, Sandra de la Cruz, Steven Lapcevic, Fiorella Vano.

JUNKIE by William Burroughs was considered unpublishable more than it was controversial. Burroughs began it largely at the request and insistence of Allen Ginsberg , who was impressed by Burroughs's letter writing skill. Burroughs took up the task with little enthusiasm. However, partly because he saw that becoming a publishable writer was possible (his friend Jack Kerouac had published his first novel The Town and the City in 1950), he began to compile his experiences as an addict, 'lush roller' and small-time Greenwich Village heroin pusher.

There is no doubt that Burroughs's work would not have been published but for Allen Ginsberg's drive and determination. Apart from his own artistic output, Ginsberg can justly be remembered as a great teacher of writing. Throughout his life, he shepherded many artistic works to fruition. JUNKIE was probably the first. Besides encouraging Burroughs to write, he worked as editor and agent for the manuscript while the manuscript was written in Mexico City during Burroughs' forced flight from pending drug charges in New Orleans . The companion piece to Junkie, Queer, was written at the same time and parts of Queer were designed to be included in Junkie, since the first manuscript was dismissed as poorly written and lacking in interest and insight. After many rejection letters, Burroughs stopped writing.

Ginsberg miraculously found a publisher in a psychiatric hospital in New Jersey. He had admitted himself to a Hoboken hospital after getting kicked out of Columbia University. Carl Solomon, the owner and publisher of Ace Books, was pressured to consider the work upon the insistence of his son, who had been hospitalized in the same facility as Ginsberg. With this news, Ginsberg forced Burroughs to revisit the text. Allen soothed Burroughs's indignation at the necessary edits, and was able to finally place the novel with the New York publishing house.

JUNKIE was the favorite book of Jean Michel Basquiat and he was part of New York's churning underground arts scene of the late '70s and '80s, when downtown galleries, lofts and clubs seethed with creativity, roiled by a confluence of musicians, artists and writers -- overlapping generations of the avant-garde -- the likes of which had rarely been seen.
Basquiat didn't seem destined from birth to be an artist, or an outsider. His father was an accountant, and he grew up comfortably in a middle-class home. But he dropped out of high school at 17, a year from graduation, and moved to lower Manhattan, living for a time in a box in Tompkins Square Park.

TOMPKINS SQUARE SHOW is featuring artists reflecting about complexity of human condition. How the Society influence on the artist. How the environment influence the artist's behavior. The process of Creativity is a status de inner self, and art become in channel to scream his pain, angry and ideas.

TOMPKINS SQUARE SHOW was curated by RAMIREX

DORIS SALCEDO

Premian a la escultora colombiana Doris Salcedo con el bienal Ordway 2005, en Estados Unidos

La Fundación Penny McCall le entregará US$ 100.000, uno de los premios más generosos del arte. Su obra incluye ropas de las víctimas de la violencia.

La escultora colombiana Doris Salcedo, quien ha incorporado a sus obras materiales orgánicos como ropas que usaron las víctimas de la violencia, ganó el Premio Bienal Ordway 2005, informó ayer la fundación que lo ha instituido este año para distinguir el talento artístico en el mundo.

El premio tiene una recompensa en efectivo de 100.000 dólares y es uno de los más generosos del arte internacional, dijo la Fundación Penny McCall, una organización privada fundada en 1987 para apoyar el avance de las artes y letras contemporáneas.

Salcedo, de 48 años, fue seleccionada entre tres finalistas en la categoría de artistas por un panel de expertos. Los otros dos, Sam Durant y Senga Nengudi, ambos estadounidenses, recibirán 7.500 dólares cada uno.

El premio Ordway, que se otorgará cada dos años, también cubre con 100.000 dólares la categoría de escritor o curador de arte, y fue concedido a Ralph Rugoff, un prolífico curador y escritor de arte contemporáneo y actual director del California College of the Arts, en San Francisco.

En el grupo de Rugoff quedaron como finalistas Lynne Cooke, de Australia, y David Rimanelli, de Estados Unidos, que también recibirán 7.500 dólares cada uno.

Doris Salcedo ha sido conocida hasta hace tres años como artista más bien de galerías con trabajos de ensamblaje de objetos como piezas de mesas, tasas y sillas, que también incorporaban materiales orgánicos como pelo, piel de animales y ropas que pertenecieron a víctimas de la violencia.

La fundación sostuvo que sus más recientes proyectos son ahora montajes en gran escala en espacios públicos abiertos, incluyendo la creación de "1550 sillas" para la Bienal de Estambul 2003 y "Abismo", actualmente en exhibición en la Trienal T1 en Turín.

Jennifer McSweeney, directora de la fundación, dijo que esperaba que el premio y el dinero que lo acompaña "harán la diferencia en las vidas de los ganadores y finalistas al incentivarlos a seguir creando".

HAPPY NEW YEAR

NEW YORK ART GENERATION

June 16th - July 2nd, 2005
Opening reception, June 17th, 6-8pm

New York Art Generation was conceived as an exhibition focusing on young emerging artists living in New York City.

Every year hundreds of artists come to New York with the intent to show their artwork in New York galleries. Similarly, de Kooning, in the nineteen twenties, came from Holland to become famous in New York. He was an illegal immigrant and he did odd jobs until finally becoming recognized. Other examples include Rothko from Russia and Philip Guston from Canada. Recently, an example of such success is Vik Muniz, who came from Brazil in the late eighties knowing no English, and, who today is one of the most important photographers in the world.

New York Art Generation presents artists who have emerged since the late nineties. Their work explores both this time period – during which the world has changed dramatically – shows vitality, energy, and exciting promise; and anticipates new directions in the contemporary art world.

This group show features artists living in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island. Some of them are North American and others are from Colombia, France, Brazil, Mexico, Israel and Austria. So many artists from the around the world come to New York because New York is the capital of the Art World. No discussions.

New York Art Generation was curated by Ramirex.