Classical Guitar Concert with Scott Borg: JULY 10th 2011
Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series
LAST IN THE SERIES!
July 10th, 4pm
Tickets: $15 (Cash only, inc wine & cheese)
This concert will take place in the Winthrope Room at The Roger Smith Hotel
Reservations: email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
or call 2123.339.2092
Praised as a guitarist with “enormous facility on the guitar, a fluent technique, who plays with total confidence and professional expertise, panache and artful spontaneity”, by Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, Australian classical guitarist Scott Borg performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, he has been a featured artist at major concert halls such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and New York’s Apollo Theatre with rock legend Carlos Alomar. As a winner of Artists International, he made his Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall where New York Concert Review described his performance as “well balanced, gracefully presented, and expertly played”. Previous engagements have included performances and masterclasses at the Merida International Guitar Festival in Yucatan, Mexico, ICPNA International Guitar Festival in Lima Peru, Shell Darwin International Festival Australia, the 92nd Street Y, New York City Classical Guitar Society and Sydney Classical Guitar Society. www.scottborgguitar.com
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concerts Series As the name implies, this series takes place on the second Sunday of every month in the spectacular and intimate Penthouse on the sixteenth floor of the hotel. Co-curated by composer and musician Frank Wallace and musician and president of the New York City Classical Guitar Society John Olson, the SSCCS series presents musicians performing in styles ranging from the Segovia Tradition to the rock inspired, from flamenco to modern art song.
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Summer Show at The LAB Gallery: Projected Drawings by Helen Dennis July 8-Sep 2, 2011
Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
The show Projected Drawings, will unite the notions and essence of photography into a single large scale installation, filling the entire space of The LAB Gallery.
Watch the Teaser
Dennis will be hand drawing a mirrored reflection of the intersection of 47th and Lexington Avenue, creating a distilled inversion of the urban environment onto the gallery wall.
Helen Dennis’s process typically uses urban architectural photographs projected onto tracing paper to guide the hand drawn sketches of her subjects. In then laying the ink on tracing paper drawings down on top of photographic paper and exposing it to the light, she creates a negative positive line image of her original photograph.
For Projected Drawings the end result will remain the same with a white on black linear distillation of an urban landscape, but the process will be approached from the opposite angle, using light reflective pens on a solid black surface. The lines will no longer be a bi-product as they are in Helen’s typical process, but will become the primary source of the image.
Exhibiting concurrently in the Lobby of The Roger Smith Hotel is also a series of New York-based works by Dennis.
Helen Dennis is originally from the UK and now resides in Brooklyn. Her public art installations include projects with the Downtown Alliance of New York, and NoLongerEmpty. In 2007 Dennis was a Creative Capital Strategic Planning Fellow in the Emerge 9 program at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Dennis has participated in various exhibitions worldwide and in the US with the support of the Queens Museum, Queens Council of the Arts, QMAD, Kent County Council, New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and South East Arts UK. She has participated in international art residencies with organizations in Beijing, Cyprus and Iceland. Dennis earned her BA (Honors) at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK and received her MFA degree from Hunter College in 2005. http://helendennis.wordpress.com/
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force an interaction between the high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions it produces and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. www.thelabgallery.com
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The LAB (for installation + performance art) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: AUGUST 1st, 2011
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is currently accepting submissions for their 2012 program.
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force an interaction between the high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions it produces and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration.
FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT US HERE
HOW TO SUBMIT HERE
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UNCOVERING, A PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION BY LEIMAY: XIMENA GARNICA AND SHIGE MORIYA (Video Archive 10.06.11-24.06.11)
Posted on 06. Jun, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
June 10-24th, 2011 Part 1: June 10,11,13,14,15,16 4-8pm Part 2: June 19,20,21,22,23,24 4-8pm
Video: Part One By John Birdsong
Uncovering: In Rehearsal By John Birdsong
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to present Uncovering, a performance installation by LEIMAY, led by the creative duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Uncovering is an exploration into the paradox between fear and ambition; how it affects the individual and helps define society. This two part piece will take place over the course of a two week run on the corner of 47th and Lex.
For the first week, June 10-16, LEIMAY collaborates with Tijuana born, New York based draftsman and artist Hugo Crosthwaite and an international group of New York based performers and Butoh dancers. This is a durational dance-drawing-installation that will take place 4-8pm each night; reflecting on how society’s hierarchical views of success are dominated by fear of failure.
Through a series of daily performances, the residue of sweat and movement produced by the performers will gradually expose a large scale mural-engraving hidden behind white cloth sheeting. The performance will challenge the viewer to explore the confrontation between our collective values and individual self discovery, bringing to the forefront the ephemeral nature of life.
Performed by Yamasaki Ami, Taj Black, Ximena Garnica, May-Lee Hollis, Theresa Maragio, Liz McAuliffe, Denisa Musilova, Hiram Pines, Rachel Richman, Julie Spodek and Alex Vizzi.
For the second week of Uncovering, June 19-24, the space will once again be transformed by a daily five hour solo performance by Ximena Garnica. Exploring the innate struggle that exists between the creation of self-protective mechanisms, she will publicly confront the challenge of removing them. Each day, Garnica will go through the same process of shedding liquid latex skin-moulds of her body, letting them accumulate in the space, eventually leaving her exposed, naked and vulnerable.
Performers Part Two: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Throughout both parts of the installation a collection of sound vignettes by Jeremy Slater and Roland Toledo will be played. They are based on recordings of the sounds generated during the production period of this piece.
Over the two weeks, Uncovering will progress from a collective confrontation of the many, struggling in a frantic society, to the single reconciliation of the individual who by exploring her personal fear, causes the revitalization of humanity.
LEIMAY is the parapluie for Ximena Garnica art works, Shige Moriya art works and the collaboration work between these two artists at the intersection of dance, performance, and installation art. LEIMAY is currently in residency at HERE Arts Center. Their work has been developed in residencies at the Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, the New Hazlett Theater, the National Museum of Dance, and Hanoi Contemporary Arts Center. They have received fellowships and grants support from the Ford Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Urban Artist Initiative (UAI/NYC), The Asian American Arts Alliance, and the Japan Foundation. Their work has been recognized with the Armani Design Award of the Watermill Center for Shige Moriya and the Bessie Schonberg Individual Choreographers Residency Award of the Yard and the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship for young hispanic directors in New York for Ximena Garnica. LEIMAY is a project of the experimental and contemporary art and performance space known as CAVE. www.leimay.org
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force an interaction between the high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions it produces and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. www.thelabgallery.com
For further information, images or to schedule an interview with the artist, contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Uncovering
By LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
June 10-24, 2011
Part 1: June 10,11,13,14,15,16 4-8pm
Part 2: June 19,20,21,22,23,24 2-8pm
All works of art and performances in The LAB are shown within the confines of the space, and are intended to be viewed by the audience from the sidewalk.
This event is free and viewable 24/7
125 like attracts like!
Posted on 02. Jun, 2011 by JohnKnowles in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel
It is a beautiful day in sunny midtown.
As I stand in front of the 125 watching people passed by I am reflecting on the law of attraction.
Like attracts like!
Last week we installed a Schwinn bike in the display window on 47th St. Next thing you know in front of this window there are four beautiful motorcycles. Talk about the law of attraction.
With a beautiful new window and improve Facade, all I can see our beautiful people walking by. The universe is calling you to come and check out our space. There is a new welcoming energy on 47th St. The sun is shining! People are happy! It Is a good day! If you are indoors, be sure to step out and enjoy the weather. If you are in midtown come by and say hello. I will be here representing on the block! #halla@me! Panman
SCENES FROM LAST WEEK: LEX/47 An Interactive Video Installation by Andrew Demirjian: May 27-June 30, 2011
Posted on 24. May, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel
Roger Smith Arts is pleased to present Scenes from Last Week: LEX/47, at The Roger Smith Hotel from May 27-June 30 2011.
In a city constantly moving forward and erasing its relationship with the past, this video installation flips that experience on its ear byre-inserting the past into the present. Comprised of two video monitors in two storefronts directly across the street from one other, each displaying synchronized surveillance camera views recorded from the previous 7 days, the piece creates the experience of seeing the recent history of where the viewer is standing but not the present. The work creates a perceptual trip wire into the past, intended to reawaken our senses to the randomness and ritual in our daily environment.
Scenes from Last Week: LEX/47 is a new work by media artist Andrew Demirjian in collaboration with The Roger Smith Hotel, Beekman Liquors and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center where he is currently an artist in residence. The project continues inside lobby of the Roger Smith Hotel where video monitors display live-edited camera footage from both sides of the street. A computer program written by the artist creates rhythms with the synchronized footage inspired by musical compositions. In this work, surveillance is a constant yet hidden aspect of daily life in New York City, which is made apparent, uncovering the archeology of the everyday.
Inspired by traditional painting genres like portraiture and landscape, Andrew Demirjian’s work explores boundaries between psychological and physical environments using contemporary technology, like surveillance video, motion tracking, and data gathering. His work has been exhibited widely including international exhibitions in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia as well as many galleries in New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center and has been awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant, and a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His current work involves creating computer programs to delay, synchronize and juxtapose multiple long-term video streams to reveal hidden patterns in the everyday. www.andrewdemirjian.com
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals. www.rogersmithlife.com
Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. www.eyebeam.org
For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092
@RSHotel: Wired – Claire Chase and Eric Lamb Flute Concert (Video Archive 5/22/11)
Posted on 22. May, 2011 by Birdsong in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events
@RSHotel: Wired – Claire Chase and Eric Lamb, Flutes
Claire Chase and Eric Lamb = are the flute section of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and have been playing together since a chance encounter in the summer of 1997 on Cape Cod convinced them that they had been separated at birth. Since then, Claire and Eric – often referred to as the duo “Wired” – have played hundreds of concerts together, and have cultivated a tight-knit virtuosity and emotional chemistry well-suited to the challenges of contemporary repertoire, premiering dozens of new duo works for the entire family of flutes. Equally at home with baroque, classical, romantic, and experimental repertoire as well as with new directions in electro-acoustic music and improvisation, they have performed as a duo throughout the US and Europe and given duo master classes recently at Northwestern University, Smith College and the Wiesbaden Academy of Music in Germany.
PROGRAM
Telemann: Canonic Sonata in g minor
Toru Takemitsu: Masque for two flutes
Richard Barrett: Binary for two flutes
W.F. Bach: Sonata for two flutes
Marcos Balter: Edgewater for alto and bass flutes
Mario Diaz de Leon: Altar of Two Serpents for two alto flutes
G.P. Telemann: Canonic Sonata in G Major
New Show at The LAB: Billowing Beauty, by French Artist Anne Ferrer 05.13.11-06.03.11
Posted on 09. May, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, LAB Gallery, the LAB
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to present Paris based artist Anne Ferrer in her first exhibition in New York City. Rooted in the her experience of foreignness and the absence of an inherent sense of home, Anne’s nomadic, sensorial sculpture is an organically inspired installation that is transportable in a suitcase. Edward Rubin, the curator of Billowing Beauty, describes it as “a lush and sensuous, sensitive and bold, mysteriously animated, Parisian soufflé”. Comprised of five exuberantly colored, giant, hand-sewn modules; the installation, breathes, grows, and evolves in slow motion, to the ‘lighter than air’ music of Los Angeles based composer Carol Worthey. This ‘live ballet’ brings a continuous element of chaos, surprise and joy, like a floating bubble, or a shimmering shrine, to one of the busiest avenues in New York City.
Anne Ferrer who lives and works in Paris comes from a Catalan family and has grown up in small rural town in south France. She has studied in the US, receiving her BFA from Oklahoma University and her MFA from Yale (1988). Ferrer has shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2002), the Centre Pompidou (2005), France, the Blue Star, San Antonio Texas (2009), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1996), the Ho Ham Museum in Seoul, la Casa de Americas in Madrid, the French Institute in Rome and Naples, etc, and has recently built a monumental installation for the Dumbo Art Festival in Brooklyn. She has collaborated with Perfumers (International Flavors and Fragrances) as well as pastry chef Jean Paul Hevin, for her multi-sensorial sculptures. Ferrer is currently busy preparing a show for this summer at Chateau d’Avignon, France. www.anneferrer.com
Composer Carol Worthey combines elements of classical, jazz and world music into an expressive, playful mix that soars and breathes with life and color. Inspired by family friend Leonard Bernstein Carol began composing at three and a half and had a piano work performed in Carnegie Hall when she was ten. Mentored by the likes of Darius Milhaud, Vincent Persichetti, Walter Piston and Otto Luening, she won First Prize in Composition at Columbia and expanded her dimensions at a jazz/arranging school. Her award winning music has been heard in England, Italy, France, Germany, China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States. She lives in Los Angeles where she is writing a book on the art of composing. www.carolworthey.com
Edward Rubin, writer, curator, and artists, lives in New York City. His writings on art, culture, and entertainment, appear regularly in such publications as ArtNexus, ArtUS, D’art International, Flash Art, Hispanic Outlook, NYArts and Sculpture Magazines, as well as online at Artes Magazine, Huma3, and NY Theatre Wire. His photographs and collages have been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in Baltimore, Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and at numerous New York City galleries. Currently, his work, part of a group exhibition titled NYC/International Perspectives, has been traveling throughout Germany, Hungary, France and Russia. It opens this June at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art under the title New York – Then and Now. Rubin is on the boards of the International Association of Art Critics, and the American Theatre Critics Association. He is also a member of the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and PEN America Center. erubin5000@aol.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interactions between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. http://www.thelabgallery.com
For further information, images or to schedule an interview with the artist, contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Classical Guitarist John Lehmann-Haupt Performs at The Roger Smith Hotel, 06.12.11
Posted on 08. May, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series, Events, Hotel
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series
Roger Smith Arts and The New York Classical Guitar Society
Present John Lehmann-Haupt
June 12th, 2011 4pm
John Lehmann-Haupt, a New York based guitarist, has been playing since he was five years old. Known equally for his arrangements of popular and traditional songs, as for his classical interpretations, he has performed throughout the Northeast and in the homes of such prominent New Yorkers as Tom Brokaw, Madeleine Albright, and Donald Trump. His twelve year engagement at Windows on the World (atop the World Trade Center) was cited for musical excellence by The New York Times.
Information:
Where: The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
How: Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Price: $15 includes Wine and Cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Lynn McGrath: Classical Guitar Concert (video)
Posted on 06. May, 2011 by Birdsong in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series: Lynn McGrath
Sunday, May 8, 2011, at 4:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by New York City Classical Guitar Society and The Roger Smith Hotel
Frank Wallace and John Olson, series co-curators
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at East 47th Street
New York City (see map)
Tickets $15, cash only at the door. For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 755-1400.
Lynn McGrath has performed and given masterclasses for prominent guitar programs including the University of Veracruz (Mexico) and Oberlin Conservatory, and has appeared on a number of arts series and for colleges across the United States. In 2008, she completed a 6-concert tour of Peru, and has been an outreach artist for organizations such as the Austin Classical Guitar Society and the Da Camera Society (Los Angeles). She has appeared as a soloist with the Northern New York, has adjudicated a number of international competitions, and in 2009 was selected as the clinician and conductor of the Albuquerque Honors Guitar Group.
After having received degrees in Spanish Language and Literature, Education, and Music, Lynn received her Master and Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Southern California. She has studied with some of today’s most prominent guitarists, including William Kanengiser, Pepe Romero, James Smith, and Douglas Rubio. Lynn McGrath is a former faculty member of the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, where she received a Student Choice Award in 2006. She serves as the Tour Director for the Guitar Foundation of America and presently lives and teaches in Albuquerque, NM.
