No Proud Scars--Please
Above Image: Carlos Charlie Perez, Still from Billy The Kids, 2010 © Carlos Charlie PerezNo Proud Scars--Please
Don Edler, Carlos Perez, Andres Laracuente, Gilad Ratman, Julian Lorber, and Nikki Schiro
Group Exhibition Curated by Peter Duhon
Group Exhibition Curated by Peter Duhon
Opening: June 8th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
June 8th - June 29th
June 8th - June 29th
Spattered Columns
491 Broadway Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
491 Broadway Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
No Proud Scars, Please
PRESS RELEASE:
Spattered Columns is pleased to announce No Proud Scars, Please—an exhibition curated by Peter Duhon. Its title taken from the metaphysical thriller, Possessions, written by prominent psychoanalyst, critic, Julia Kristeva, psychoanalyst, critic, and Professor Emeritus at the University de Paris VII. Kristeva is internationally recognized for innovative explorations in her groundbreaking and immensely influential texts such as Revolution in Poetic Language and Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection.
In her novel, Possessions, Kristeva details the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of a close friend to the heroine Stephanie Delacour, who sets out to discover the murderer. The journey that ensues opens a conceptual terrain that eschews crippling and unproductive nostalgia—a journey that is both publicly and privately sociopolitical.
The five artists selected for this exhibition work with wide-ranging materials and concepts, some of which intersect with themes explored by Kristeva in her novel. The exhibition includes work by Gilad Ratman (video), Andres Laracuente (sculpture), Julian Lorber (painting), Carlos Charlie Perez (photography and video), Nikki Schiro (painting), and Don Edler (sculpture). No Proud Scars, Please is an exhibition that seeks to engage critically with time, history, memory and loss by privileging a spirit of Nietzschean affirmation with works of art that provoke productive multiplicity.
In her novel, Possessions, Kristeva details the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of a close friend to the heroine Stephanie Delacour, who sets out to discover the murderer. The journey that ensues opens a conceptual terrain that eschews crippling and unproductive nostalgia—a journey that is both publicly and privately sociopolitical.
The five artists selected for this exhibition work with wide-ranging materials and concepts, some of which intersect with themes explored by Kristeva in her novel. The exhibition includes work by Gilad Ratman (video), Andres Laracuente (sculpture), Julian Lorber (painting), Carlos Charlie Perez (photography and video), Nikki Schiro (painting), and Don Edler (sculpture). No Proud Scars, Please is an exhibition that seeks to engage critically with time, history, memory and loss by privileging a spirit of Nietzschean affirmation with works of art that provoke productive multiplicity.
The opening reception for No Proud Scars, Please will take place from 6pm-8pm on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Spattered Columns, 491 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10012. The show will run until June 29, 2011.
Spattered Columns is a program of Art Connects New York, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to enrich the lives of all New Yorkers by making original visual artwork more readily available in non-traditional settings.
For more information on No Proud Scars, Please at Spattered Columns/Art Connects New York, please contact Ginger Shulick at gingers{at}artconnectsnewyork.org.
Spattered Columns is a program of Art Connects New York, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to enrich the lives of all New Yorkers by making original visual artwork more readily available in non-traditional settings.
For more information on No Proud Scars, Please at Spattered Columns/Art Connects New York, please contact Ginger Shulick at gingers{at}artconnectsnewyork.org
New Book!
64 Pages, Lush Images of artwork by Nikki Schiro made during Residency in Chengdu China, 2010. Own your own copy today!
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God Save My Shoes!
This is a trailer for an interesting and fun documentary about the relationship between women and shoes...and don't I love to let my mind run all over such relationships.
I'm in the movie, and it's produced by Caid Productions.
More at www.godsavemyshoes.com
I'm in the movie, and it's produced by Caid Productions.
More at www.godsavemyshoes.com
LIC Arts Week: Activities at Reis Studios
Reis Studios 43-01 22nd Street, NY 11101(Near P.S.1 Museum and Citibank building)
My Studio is on the 3rd floor, 353-352
My Studio is on the 3rd floor, 353-352
Today I registered to be a stem cell/bone marrow donor at a drive that was organized in the Ballroom of the HI Hostel in Harlem (What a cool building); an extension of Anna Lise Jensen's artwork "Have a Seat" (The floor installation which debuted as Jensen's contribution to the Composting Installation for the Sweet + Sour show...). My mouth was swabbed, as I sat on Anna Lise's floor installation. I filled out an application, got a sticker, painless and very interesting as I met a ton of extraordinary people and volunteers--one a survivor, whose presence and story really brought the live saving aspects of this kind of simple donation into the space and my heart. To close, I was offered a bright candy-ful print by Anna Lise Jensen, called "Life Savers"....
Another donor getting swabbed on the installation
Art For Japan
March 29, 2011
Artist(s): Ushio Shinohara, Shingo Francis, Gen Aihara, Katsuhiro Saiki, ON Megumi, Yumi Kori, Tomomi Ono, Nikki Schiro, etc.
ART FOR JAPAN
Art Exhibition to help the Earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan
Tuesday, March 29 2011, from 5 – 8PM
Venue: ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery
On March 11, the massive earthquake of magnitude 9,0 and the huge Tsunami hit Northeast of Japan and caused catastrophic damages. Thousands of people were killed and many more are still missing.
ISE Cultural Foundation is organizing 1-day art exhibition of "ART FOR JAPAN" in order to raise the fund for the earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan.
The artists will donate their artworks and exhibit at ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery on Tuesday, March 29.
All of the artworks will be sold either $20 or $40 in cash only.
*ISE Cultural Foundation will match up the same amount of the all sales from the event and will donate 100% of the fund to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures through the Japanese American Association of New York.
Artist(s): Ushio Shinohara, Shingo Francis, Gen Aihara, Katsuhiro Saiki, ON Megumi, Yumi Kori, Tomomi Ono, Nikki Schiro, etc.
ART FOR JAPAN
Art Exhibition to help the Earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan
Tuesday, March 29 2011, from 5 – 8PM
Venue: ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery
On March 11, the massive earthquake of magnitude 9,0 and the huge Tsunami hit Northeast of Japan and caused catastrophic damages. Thousands of people were killed and many more are still missing.
ISE Cultural Foundation is organizing 1-day art exhibition of "ART FOR JAPAN" in order to raise the fund for the earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan.
The artists will donate their artworks and exhibit at ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery on Tuesday, March 29.
All of the artworks will be sold either $20 or $40 in cash only.
*ISE Cultural Foundation will match up the same amount of the all sales from the event and will donate 100% of the fund to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures through the Japanese American Association of New York.
Sweet + Sour: tART Works, Armory Weekend, Opening Reception
Swept, Pulled and Lifted,a collaboration by Artists Ann deVere and Deborah Pohl.
Pod City: Collaboration by Julia Whitney Barnes, Yasmin Spiro and Katerina Lanfranco (respectively)
Composting, a collaboration by artists Petra Valentova, Nikki Schiro and Anna Lise Jensen (respectively)
Composting Collaboration: Detail of Anna Lise Jensen and Petra Valentova artworks
Mutilated Flowers by Petra Valentova, Framed re-constructed old masters by myself, Nikki Schiro 
Two Abstract Paintings based on the same quotes, collaboration by artists Melissa Staiger and Liz Ainsliebased on quotes from Joseph Conrad's "The Hear of Darkness" and Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"
Artists Melissa Staiger and Liz Ainslie, central
Artists Damali Abrams and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow prepare for the streets, to preform and document their collaborative piece Sweetly Sour..
great minds think alike
Damali Abrams and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Artist Nikki Schiro
artists Deborah Pohl and Nikki Schiro
Paige Laverty and Friend in front of Nikki Schiro and Petra Valentova artworks
tART Artist Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow with exhibition curator Caroline Elizabeth Babson
Frank Schiro and Kristin Malafy
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