Wednesday, June 25, 2014

DEAD SPACE presents: Fast Relief by Lacey Carter

I am lining up some good artists for the next installments of Food for Thoughts. In the mean time, we have a show opening at the gallery I run, DEAD SPACE. Hope to see you there.
xo Sarah Alice Moran




Snake eyes. Free throw. Guitar solo. Pee Wee Herman and Claes Oldenburg shoot hoops after Garage Band practice. Locked inside Dead Space, Lacey Carter, has been living, breathing and shitting this ball pit of work for the past four weeks. Your fantasy wreck room has been installed inside the gallery. Grab the hot pink guitar, or play a game of big fat dice. Look up ↑ – each ceiling tile is from last week's Pictionary game.

Carter embraces play, memory and association to hustle her way through the automatic process of compulsive production.

Lacey Carter is an LA artist and set designer living in Denver. Fast Relief is made up of things found from scavenging the city and leftover movie sets which she combines with her own paintings, drawings and specifically fabricated furniture. The entire process has been collaborative with her gang of brilliant friends comprised of architects, designers, craftsman and hooligans. 


Playtime is 7-10
Friday June 27
After party to follow on the roof

DEAD SPACE
164 20th St. suite 3A
Brooklyn, New York 11232

Sunday, February 23, 2014

DEAD SPACE presents: All That and a Bag of Chips


I am opening an art gallery/project space with two other artists, Cody Brgant and Sam Liebert in South Slope, Brooklyn, called DEAD SPACE (it used to be a coffin showroom!). Our first event is Saturday, March 8th. Info is below. 

DEAD SPACE presents:
ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS
A chaotic experiment in art and commerce.

All of the artists have created work specifically for this show representative of something you would buy in a grocery store or bodega. The work will go on sale after an announcement the evening of the opening. The work must be bought and taken home that night. BRING CA$H. Small bills—don't be a jerk. 

Artists:
Monique Atherton
Rachel Barrett
Meg Berk
Tess Bilhartz
Cody Brgant
Jon Campolo
Jon Carillo
Christopher Carroll
Lacey Carter
Nick Chandelle
Joseph Chugg
Nancy Dwyer
Shannon Finnegan & Breanne Trammell
Daniel Herr
Molly Hodson
Greg Hopkins
Katerina LaFranco
Luke Lepore
Sam Liebert
Sarah Lubin
Dan Lucal
Mollie McKinley
Laurel McMechan
Michael Medel
Sarah Alice Moran
Steve Nicholson
Corey Oberlander
Jacqueline Norheim
Paulina Perlwitz
Jeremy Roby
Christopher Rubin
Peter Schenck
Piotr Shytk
Matt Soltesz
Lindsey Stapleton
Elizabeth Thach
Gregory Vershbow
Ashley Wertheimer
Jake Ziemann

DEAD SPACE is located at:
164 20th St. Unit 3A (btwn 3rd and 4th Ave)
BROOKLYN, NY
R to Prospect or F or G to 4th Ave and 9th St. 


Wednesday, November 27, 2013

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS #3: GREGORY VERSHBOW

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS #3: GREGORY VERSHBOW

November 17, 2013 
Upper West Side, New York City


Like being a child convinced that all your toys came to life when you left the room, photographer Gregory Vershbow reveals the hidden lives of the statues and paintings in the back rooms of museums and conservations laboratories. Recontextualized by their new surroundings, the art objects take on new meanings as they are suffocated by plastic wrap, poke their heads out of wooden crates or are resigned to do their time behind bars.

Vershbow says, “In taking these photographs, I have found that the camera, too, acts as an agent, sometimes revealing an optical arrangement visible only via long exposure. For some pictures, the exposure is so long that the subject is visible only in the photograph. Other pictures are made from multiple exposures. These composite images often have more than one vanishing point or exhibit an optically impossible depth of field. I do not touch or rearrange these objects, but the camera creates spaces and events that add to the manifold ways in which artifacts from the past reveal new points of view.”

Gregory Vershbow had solo show at the Walters Museum in Maryland this past summer entitled: Site Unseen. He had these prints on hand and we re-staged the museum show in his Upper West Side apartment.


Dinner guests: Paulina, Chris, Jen, Morgan, Diana, Carolina, Gabriela, Maria, Cody, Sam, Matt, Jeremy, Tora, Laurel and Shira

Artist, Gregory Vershbow (and his son, Asa)













Installation shots from The Walters Museum












Gregory and Shira



Please direct all inquiries to
Curator: Sarah Alice Moran, sarah@sarahmoran.com
Artist: Gregory Vershbow, gvershbow@gmail.com



Sunday, October 27, 2013

David Salle at BHQFU - Leave The Theory at Home


David Salle is teaching an art criticism class at The Bruce High Quality Foundation University that I'm lucky enough to be in. 

The first assignment was an abstract associative approach to describing art as a response to three different prompts. 

I'm sharing the responses I wrote below. I recommend trying it out! It's super fun once you get going.


This is art that says...

Abe Morell's photos say abracadabra.

Claes Oldenburg's sculptures say look in between your couch cushions.

Holly Coulis paintings say I'm reading your dreams.

Guido Reni paintings say it's time to waltz.

Trenton Doyle Hancock's work says meat is good for you.

Marilyn Minter's work says more is more, darling.

Morandi's work says I only drink water, no ice.

Kusama's paintings say the infinite is finite.

Erwin Wurm's work says the world is a dumb place if you look at it hard enough.

Diane Arbus photos say quit staring.

10 examples of art and place them in their appropriate settings.

Lisa Yuskavage paintings belong in the waiting room of the gynecologist office to lend some humor, color and poignancy to the absurdity of being a woman.

While exploring a mountain trail in Vermont, slightly dehydrated and blurry from the trek I would like to stumble upon a Neo Rauch painting tucked away in a cave slightly hidden by the brush.

Peter Doig paintings belong in a child's playroom.

I would like to see Richard Serra sculptures replace all the jungle gyms in the playgrounds in Central Park. Children would desperately throwing themselves at the hard vertical sides of the forms trying to pull themselves up onto the sculpture with their skinny booger covered fingers.

Daniel Richter paintings would be at home in a dance tent at a music festival.

Rachel Whiteread sculptures belong in the lego section of FAO Schwartz.

Dante Gabriel Rosetti paintings would find a happy home in the library of The Brearley School, an upper east side girls school full of teenaged literary feminists.

Yayoi Kusama's room installations are what you should walk through after exiting an ice skating rink when your body is warm with blood bumping from activity and your skin is cold from the raw winter air.

Stephen Mueller paintings belong in the waiting room at the eye doctor.

Mamma Andersson paintings would be at home at every slumber party I've ever had.

This work puts me in mind of…….”

Vuillard paintings put me in the mind of the way space feel when you hide under a table.

Josephine Halvorson paintings put me in the mind of watching an ant carry a leaf that is four times the size of his own body.

The main James Turrel work at the Guggenheim make me think of the title screen of Looney Tunes.

Mike Kelley sculptures put me in the mind of being in the ball pit at McDonald's.

Louise Bourgeois puts me in the mind of that feeling you get right after waking from a bad dream where the horror still feels near but you can just taste the relief of distance.

Dan Flavin puts me in the mind of being on a beach when the sun is directly overhead and I lie down and close my eyes but the sun burns through my lids creating that inescapable red glow.

Michael Borremons paintings put me in the mind of being in a foreign country where a beer is still a beer but all the signs are in another language.

Martha Colburn videos put me in the mind of being a child and looking through flip books.

Balthus paintings put me in the mind of waking up in a bedroom that isn't yours and forgetting, just for the brief moment when you are opening your eyes, where you are.


Sally Mann's photographs put me in the mind of being a child and realizing that one day your parents are going to die.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS #2: TORA LOPEZ

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS #2: TORA LOPEZ

July 11, 2013
Bushwick, Brooklyn

Tora Lopez is a performance artist and sculptor with a background in fashion and tailoring. These skills in craftsmanship give weight and invite investigation into every detail of her projects. The costumes themselves are sculptures handed stitched to turn the body into a manifestation of the frenzied and hysterical characters that come to life in the performances. But this is not just theatre to watch, Lopez's performance becomes the viewer's world as you step into a space and energy completely transformed. Lopez interacts and reacts to the people involved with each piece. It is an earnest sharing of vision that is at once overwhelming and transformative in its generosity and openness.

Lopez's most recent works include an installation performance at Pulse NYC, We Couldn't Remember What We Came To Forget, in collaboration with Lisa Lozano and Cold Castle at Family Business,a 24 hour, 17 day life installation performance experience

www.toralopez.com

Dinner guests: Daphane, Kat C., Stephanie, Julia, Eric, Ted, Michael, Abby, Nick, Jen, Mark, Cat, Naomi, Paulina, Sam, Cody, Avery, Kirsten

Artist, Tora Lopez














 Propoganda parting gifts for all the guests

 
 
Please direct all inquiries to
Curator: Sarah Alice Moran, sarah@sarahmoran.com
Artist: Tora Lopez, tora@toralopez.com

Monday, May 27, 2013

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS #1: SARAH LUBIN

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS #1: SARAH LUBIN

May 23, 2013 
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

Sarah Lubin's paintings transform before your eyes. Shapes become people, spaces flatten and expand, color becomes electric and then fades into neutrality. Lubin creates the fantastical and hypnotic out of quotidian activities like waiting for the bus or getting popcorn. The spaces between the figures become subjects themselves as the world depicted contorts with each blink.

Sarah Lubin received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, her MA in Art History from Columbia University in 2005 and her BA from McGill University in 2001. She lives and works between Boston and New York. 

www.sarahlubin.com

Dinner guests: Laurel, Courtney, Paulina, Amy, Babek, Dave, Naomi and friend, Jen, Mark


Artist, Sarah Lubin










Sarah, Babek, Amy, Paulina, Courtney, Alex, Naomi, Dave, Mark, Jen, Laurel 




Sarah Lubin and Sarah Moran



For all inquiries please contact
Curator: Sarah Alice Moran, sarah@sarahmoran.com
Artist: Sarah Lubin, sarahlubin@hotmail.com