Winter Newsletter
 

Happy 2012 from 571 Projects!

 

 

Leah Durner is the featured artist at the Carrier & Co. apartment, 2011 Hearst Magazine Designer Visions: Cinema Style, which is featured in the January 2012 edition of Town & Country Magazine.  Pictures can be seen here.  After her May show of large-scale paintings on paper at 571 Projects, accompanied by a brochure with text by John Yau, her poured enamels were shown at New York City's Winston Wächter Fine Art.  She was the featured artist on the Herman Miller Playlist this spring, and on Design Milk this autumn!

 

Sandra Elkind's work, The Grove. I picked a path I had never taken (2011, c-print mounted on Dibond, 20 x 30 in) was awarded a prize in the 39th Annual Professional Women Photographers, and we were nostalgic for something that had yet to happen also received recognition.  In December, endless. I stared out the window of the Chevelle was selected by the Colorado Creative Industries and Creative Capitol to hang in the CO Lieutenant State Governor's office.  Elkind's work is currently on view at Bedford Gallery at The Lesher Center for the Arts as a part of SNAP.  New York City's NO Gallery will exhibit her work in Spring 2012.

 

Melora Griffis will be in a group show, Love & Heartbreak, in February 2012 at Piermont Straus Gallery (Piermont, NY).  She is currently in her studio working on a large portrait commission of three young brothers!

 

Tatiana Istomina's work was included in the exhibition entitled "Portrait of 19 Million" at Moscow's State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, curated by Yeveniy Fiks.  She will be attending residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York.  Istomina is also working on a collaborative project with Sasha Chavchavadze, which will be on view at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn in February.

 

Dorothy Simpson Krause has been selected to be the first Helen M. Salzberg Artist-in-Residence at Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University.  She will be making a limited edition book, "River of Grass" that will accompany her new show at 571 Projects in June.  Her new body of mixed media landscapes are inspired by Florida's Everglades, and are a tribute to Marjory Stoneman Douglas' important 1947 conservationist book, "The Everglade: River of Grass."  


Noah Landfield has taken inspiration from his travels in Italy this past fall.  Much as his work shown at 571 Projects was informed by Japan, he finds Italian location and place influencing his current work.

 

Laurel Lueders' work was featured in a solo show at the Schlossmuseum Quedlinburg, Germany this autumn, and one of her works for the June show, Seductive Resolution is in the process of being acquired by the Milwaukee Art Museum for their permanent collection.  In 2012 she will have a solo show, Imprints, curated by Annett Leopold at Rektoratsvilla, Hochschule Harz, the University of Applied Sciences, Wernigerode, Germany. 

 

 


Melora Griffis Artist Talk & Poetry Reading

Poets Betty Harmon, Alystyre Julian, and Shelley Stenhouse will read original poetry inspired by paintings in Melora Griffis' new solo exhibition, wings and murmurs.  Griffis will give a performance and discuss her work in an open dialogue.

 

Melora Griffis: wings and murmurs is an exhibition of new oil paintings and paintings on paper. Griffis' work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, and this is her first solo show with 571 Projects. In this body of work the artist explores themes of women's subjugation, home, and loss through an exuberant palette and painterly brushstroke.

 

While event is free and open to the public, space is limited so please plan accordingly.

 

Melora Griffis: wings and murmurs will be on view through December 16, 2011 at 571 Projects, 551 West 21st Street, Unit 204A, New York City, 10011. 571 Projects is open Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm, and by appointment.

Flat Pennies & Other Tales: A Performative Reading & Artist Talk

Reading Performance 3pm | Tickets $8 in advance, $10 at the door

Artist Talk 4pm

 

 

571 Projects is pleased to present Flat Pennies & Other Tales, an interdisciplinary exploration of the evocation of memory through performance text and the still image. Combining classical texts with new material from contemporary writers written in response to the process and work of artist Sandra Elkind currently on view at 571 Projects, Flat Pennies asks if memory is construction, inheritance or hybrid experience. Featuring work from Edward Einhorn, Lisa Bermudez, Dan Lau and others.  The reading performance is directed by Patrice Miller, and will be followed by an artist talk with Sandra Elkind.  Elkind will discuss the inspirations and processes behind this new and engaging body of work, which explores narratives of recalled personal memories through the construction and photographic documenting of miniature dioramas.

 

Tickets for the reading performance can be purchased ahead for $8, or at the door for $10.  The artist talk is free and open to the public.  Space is limited so please plan accordingly.

 

To purchase tickets online, click here.

 

Contact 571 Projects: 212.229.0897 or info@571projects.com

 

Sandra Elkind completed her MFA at Parsons – The New School for Design in 2010 and has had solo shows at Buntport Gallery (Denver, Colorado) and Sugar Lounge (Denver, Colorado).  She has participated in group exhibitions at Tsinghua University, (Beijing, China), Vinyl, Jazz B Studios, Den Gallery, Forest Room 5, and Gallery Stain (all Denver, Colorado).  Her work has been featured in Shot Magazine and she was selected to participate in the Parsons in China residency in 2009.  She was awarded a Dean’s Scholarship to Parsons The New School for Design (2008-2010), and won the Consumer Choice Family Portrait of the Year in 2004. Elkind currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

 

Patrice Miller is a theater maker. Neat recent & less than recent projects include: Havel’s latest, The Pig or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for the Pig (Choreo., UTC61, Ice Factory), The Bubble of Solace (Piper McKenzie, The Brick),  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (UTC61, 3LD), Ben Jonson's Epicene ((Re:)Directions Theatre Co.), work at NYC Fashion Week (choreo/perform;08&09), And A Diet Coke (choreo/perform; Penny Arcade’s Globesity Festival, Theater for the New City), Strange/Charm  (choreo/perform; Chashama’s Oasis Festival). She has performed in her own work as well as the Urban Bush Women’s Summer Institute, GeminiCollision’s George Bataille's Bathrobe (Annabelle Brundi) and The Devils (Sister Claire) in addition to hosting various sundry events throughout the city. Upcoming: Motti Lerner's Pangs of the Messiah with UTC61 and Bunny Lake is Missing at the Brick. She loves wine & secondary dominants.

Perspectives on an Exhibition: Artist, Curator & Gallerist

Gallery Talk Thursday, June 30 at 7pm

 

A discussion between curators Lexie Palmer, Tara Chazen-Riley, Artist Noah Landfield and Gallerist Sophie Bréchu-West

 

Join us at 7pm on Thursday, June 30 at 571 Projects as DTL Projects curators Lexie Palmer and Tara Chazen-Riley and artist Noah Landfield join gallerist Sophie Bréchu-West to discuss Seductive Resolution, the group exhibition featuring work by Noah Landfield, Laurel Lueders and Tatiana Istomina.  We look forward to a lively conversation encompassing the collaborative aspects of putting up an exhibition, and to digging deeper into this one in particular!
 
Seductive Resolution will be on view through July 15, 2011 at 571 Projects, 551 West 21st Street, Unit 204A, New York City, 10011.  571 Projects is open Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 pm, and by appointment.
 
DTL | Projects is a collective initiative by contemporary art curators Diane Vivona, Tara Riley Chazen and Lexie Palmer.  The group looks to support artists in the formative stages of their careers by providing formal opportunities for the public to view the work, and informal events during which artists and an interested public can interact.

Five Miles Meandering: A Poetry Reading | Saturday, April 2 at 5pm

 

571 Projects is pleased to host Five Miles Meandering, a reading featuring some of New York City's finest actors performing poetry both old and new, directed by Patrice Miller.

 

Programmed to reflect and collaborate with Dorothy Simpson Krause' current exhibit, Visions, the program takes its cue from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Kahn' and features work that takes us on geographical, psychological and spiritual journeys. Walking, running and sitting divinely in the presence of nature's or man's greatest architecture, the poems from poets classic and contemporary will take us deeper into Krause' stunning work.


Patrice Miller is an NYC director/choreographer/writer/producer.  Past work includes Do Androids Dream...? at 3LD with UTC#61 (Assistant Director), Hey Mary! (Director) at MITF, Hello Superstar with Alchemy Theater Company (Director), various song cycles of Carner & Gregor (Producer), playing Annabelle Lee in Foreman's George Bataille's Bathrobe (Brick/Gemini Collisionworks), The Newspaper Suites (Choreographer), various music/word series in a variety of venues.  Upcoming projects include: Comic Book Festival at the Brick, the premiere of Vaclav Havel's The Pig at the Ice Factory.

 

While the event is free and open to the public, space is limited so please plan accordingly.

Artist Talk with Dorothy Simpson Krause, April 16, 2011 at 3pm

Join us as artist Dorothy Simpson Krause discusses the processes employed in the creation of her newest body of work, and shows her new artist book based on images from this new series.

571 Projects Hosts Peter Flint & Friends for a Concert of New Trio Music

Bellowing at Art: New Trio Music

October 22, 2010
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Peter Flint and friends play new trio music for accordion, cello, and woodwinds at
571 Projects - 551 West 21st Street at 11th Avenue, Unit 204A, New York City

Peter Flint, assisted by Avian Orchestra musicians Arash Amini (cello) and Alfonso Sturgeon (woodwinds), will premiere new music for his accordion trio at the intimate 571Projects gallery in Chelsea. Expect a quirky and engaging musical evening surrounded by edgy contemporary art as Peter puts his new-found accordion skills to the test and delves into new creative territory.

Purchase tickets now.