Second Sundays Guitar Series: San Francisco Guitar Quartet 8/8/2010 at 4pm
Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series, Hotel
The Solarium, 16th floor at The Roger Smith Hotel Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese. Pay at the door, cash only . For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call 212.339.2092. Co-presented by the NYCCGS and Roger Smith Arts
Founded in 1997, the San Francisco Guitar Quartet has established itself as a dynamic force in the guitar world through its ground-breaking concerts and recordings. They are committed to presenting new music – coalescing classical, world, and improvisatory musical traditions.
The members of SFGQ, Mark Simons, Patrick O’Connell, David Dueñas, and Jon Mendle, have each distinguished themselves as recording artists and chamber musicians through their national and international touring, CD releases, and such achievements as first prize in the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Competition, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a concert appearance in Carnegie Hall. Group members also hold faculty positions in Bay Area colleges and universities.
The SFGQ tours nationally and internationally; with performances on Guam and Taiwan, as well as appearances across the US, including: New York, New Jersey, Florida, the Northwest Guitar Festival, University of Texas Guitar Festival, Arizona State University, UC Santa Cruz, Cal State Fresno, and Glendale Community College. Other past performances include San Francisco’s Omni Series, La Guitarra California Festival, Pasadena’s Guitarra del Mar series, on NPR, and the syndicated radio shows, West Coast Live, and Classical Guitar Alive!
Model Home
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by Birdsong in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Community
MODEL HOME : ON VIEW JULY 1 – AUGUST 15, 2010. The 16th floor Solarium @ The Roger Smith Hotel
SUZANNE BROUGHEL | ANNA LISE JENSEN | ELAINE KAUFMANN | JODIE LYN-KEE-CHOW SANDRA MACK-VALENCIA | CARRIE RUBINSTEIN | ASYA REZNIKOV | YASMIN SPIRO
Model Home presents the interdisciplinary work of eight artists from the tART collective, a New York-based network of women committed to exploring the intersections of public engagement, education and activism through visual art. In Model Home, Suzanne Broughel, Anna Lise Jensen, Elaine Kaufmann, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Carrie Rubinstein, Asya Reznikov and Yasmin Spiro foreground a heightened awareness of the role of objects in discussing cultural value, fetishization and identity. Through a broad survey of the domestic signifiers which simultaneously enable and oppress—mops, feather dusters, ovens, rubber gloves, kitchenware, and things-to-do-lists—this exhibition critiques the notion that there is a “model home” or “archetypal lifestyle” to which universal value can be ascribed and questions the governing political, lingual and cultural forces that write this Utopian yet heavily gendered vision into being. Model Home resituates household objects and actions outside of the diverse spaces we call home and within an exhibitory context to assert that meaning is derived from the intersection of origin and context. As global citizens, these eight artists highlight travel, tourism and routes of migration as major influences on the cultural vale of everyday objects and discuss individual agency—through what could be described as a Fluxist, visual rhetoric—as it relates to desire, self and otherness.
SUZANNE BROUGHEL
Dark Matter, Band-Aids, plastic, 7′ x 5′, 2004
99 and 44/100ths Percent Pure, Ivory Soap and African Black Soap, 3″ x 5″, 2004
Statement: As a white woman making work about racial issues, my sculpture and photo installations have an ideological content that is intentional. Yet my work is also autobiographical – growing up in Yonkers, New York, I was racially sensitized from an early age. Yonkers is a town steeped in defacto segregation. My family lived just within the borders of the predominantly black school district, which led my father to pull me out of the elementary school I loved and to later instruct me to lie about my address so I could attend the “white” junior high school. My work is concerned with issues of white skin privilege and white guilt, but also more personal levels of meaning – such as sexual desire, cultural desire, desire for identity. Developing my own visual language with which to enter the dialogue on race was fraught with starts and stops. I learned that I needed to look inward first, at self and family, as part of voicing larger concerns. My art materials became everyday household items – white sheets, Band-Aids, Ivory Soap, self-tanning lotions. The resulting objects and images are not without an awkward humor, which makes the serious subject matter more approachable to viewers.
ANNA LISE JENSEN
Swedish Housing #1, diptych, unframed, Ed. 10, archival pigment prints
Cluster 3, prints sold individually or as whole cluster, each print an edition of 10. Archival pigment prints, unframed.
Statement: My work is about the making of personal space: researching, finding, creating and sharing spatial pockets outside and within existing structures – in order to rest, facilitate interactions and bring about action. Swedish Housing, are diptychs of interiors from an aunt’s first and last residence in Sweden. Moving to Sweden in her 20′s, a textile industrialist provided her employment and a maid’s room inside his home – where his descendants now run a Bed & Breakfast. The Swedish government provided her the assisted living apartment that was her home at the time of her death. The images are a reflection on traces of the living and the dead, the mirroring of the two places as well as the intermingling of public and private spheres.
ELAINE KAUFMANN
A Couple’s Bathroom (from the series International Design), 2008, graphite on paper, 12 x 9.5 inches
Island Getaway (from the series International Design), 2007, graphite on paper, 12 x 9.5 inches
Statement: Kaufmann’s work examines contemporary media in order to comment on social phenomena. By appropriating images and texts, she seeks to expose the ways in which newspapers and magazines disguise an unspoken agenda. International Design is a series of pencil drawings that appropriate the layout and text of articles about home design. In each drawing, she replaces the article’s original photograph with an image of housing in the developing world. By juxtaposing luxury with conditions stemming from rapid urbanization in the global south, she connects the fantasies of first-world affluence with the production of third-world poverty. This relationship reveals how newspapers and magazines promote the extremes of wealth and poverty as natural and unproblematic.
JODIE LYN-KEE-CHOW
Duties’ Call, performance video, edition 1/5, 6 min 29 sec, 2005 (Sound score is a digital remixed version of the excerpt from the play, “Dead Man Walking” a 2002 play written by Tim Robbins)
Duties Call shows the protagonist, played by the artist, doing a chore and becoming the victim attacked by an ordinary household tool. The drama unfolds as a cynical and cathartic experience is exposed and reveals psycho-dramatic notions of desire and death.
Clean & Dry, performance video, edition 1 of 5.
Video footage is taken in Jamaica, West Indies and in Queens, N.Y. showing two perspectives of doing laundry. The clothesline of underwear is the foreground of a sunny country backdrop with an outhouse in West Jamaica. While this scenery plays, the position of each panty turns backwards subtlety, as a commentary on the modernized, capitalist way of doing laundry (in a place such as the United States), where machines are a substitute for the peaceful serenity that nature in a rural country-side provides. Sounds of each experience are interchanged and encapsulate the nostalgic feeling of being out of ones ordinary life routine, wishing that clothes would dry faster or daydreaming of being in a more peaceful place.
SANDRA MACK-VALENCIA
Mother Queen, transfer, flash paint and ink on paper, 2008, 14 x 17″ (unframed)
Domesticated Medusa, transfer and acrylic on wood panel, 2010, 36 x 42″
Statement: I grew up surrounded by the smell of oil paint, turpentine and linseed oil. I was taught to look beyond the basic colors and search for the subtle tones. A leaf was not just green; it could be yellow-green, red-green, or brown-green. This is how my father taught me to look at the world, and until today this is how I perceive it. I like to believe that I was born an artist; that it is my fate and that no matter what I do, I cannot deny it. I believe that there is a range of ways to approach a piece of art: From a strictly rational point of view, where we look for the signified, asking for answers or explanations, to a more emotional one that comes through sensations, with nothing to explain or understand, nothing to be interpreted, just open to the intensities that emanate from the work. My drawings should not be placed in either category, since they move back and forth between these two worlds. It took me a few years to realize that besides political, social or moralizing work, it was also possible to make art with a strong aesthetic component, work that obeys impulses and sensations. It is not senseless, since it comes from a process of thought like every creative act; but instead of trying to illustrate a concept or idea, it is the idea, it is the concept that comes through the hand in the form of a stroke, a color, a drip, a smudge.
ASYA REZNIKOV
Migration #2, 45-second stop animation, loop video with audio, edition of 8
CARRIE RUBENSTEIN
Lists, ink, pencil, thread, tacks, paper, variable dimensions, 2009
Statement: Lists in the circle shape were written by the artist’s younger sister, Robyn, who unexpectedly died in 2008. They were found in her apartment shortly after her death. They are lists of the dogs in Robyn’s dog-walking business. The five center lists are a combination of found objects from the apartment and written by the artist. They document the time and days before and during Robyn’s death.
YASMIN SPIRO
Comfort
synthetic fur, plaster, synthetic hair, pins.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT:
[panman productions.com]
Contact : art@panmanproductions.com
[nicowheadon.com]
[tartnyc.org]
Second Sundays Guitar Series: Dieter Hennings 6/13
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Editor in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
Sunday June 13th, 4pm Dieter Hennings, a native of Mexico, was awarded the Aaron Brock Prize in 2008. A graduate of the University of Arizona School of Music, where he received the Outstanding Senior Award, in Guitar Performance in 2004, Mr. Hennings is currently pursuing a double Doctoral degree in Early Plucked Instruments and Guitar Performance and Literature with Paul O’Dette at the Eastman School. Mr. Hennings has won many prestigious competitions including the 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer (Spain) International Competition Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition the 1999 and 2000 Claire Schaeffer Guitar Competition.
In the field of guitar performance Dieter is deeply committed to the diffusion of new music, specially of Latin America, having recently performed works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Mario Davidovsky.
co-presented by the NYCCGS and Roger Smith Arts
The Solarium, 16th floor at The Roger Smith Hotel
Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese
pay at the door, cash only
For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
or call 212.339.2092
LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Dieter Hennings plays The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert
Roger Smith Arts & The New York City Classical Guitar Society
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
June 13th, 2010 at 4pm
$15 includes wine and cheese
212-339-2092
http://secondsundays.tumblr.com
DannyGoulash reporting..
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Editor in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
I’m here at the setup for the Great Nude Invitational at Roger Smith Hotel. This exhibition is taking place on the second (Mezzanine) floor of the hotel in the Starlight and Screening rooms, which are two of the event spaces in the hotel.
Everyone’s working full speed with the setup and we already got some interesting art on the scene. Stay tuned for more as this installation progresses!
Here’s the link to the main article:
TheGreatNude Invitational
Catch you guys later,
DannyGoulash
Friday, May 14th
The setup is complete and large amounts of paintings and artifacts are displayed all over the Mezzanine floor of Roger Smith Hotel. Here are the results of the hard work put in the last two days!
Recap of the finished Great Nude Invitational show with Danika Druttman of the LAB gallery.
Susan Suh Jewelry has arrived @ RS POP!
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, fashion, Hotel, RS Pop
Susan Suh Jewelry has arrived as RS POP- UP Shop!
Opening night was a huge hit and guests were truly impressed with Susan’s talent.
Having once given up her dream because it seemed impossible, Susan Suh learned a valuable life lesson that one should never stop dreaming. Wings allow you to fly and she incorporates their aesthetic into her collection. Her jewelry signifies strength and elegance.
Our Video:
Store Hours: M-F 11am-8pm
Sat 12pm- 7pm, Sun 12pm- 6pm
For Mother’s Day we are doing a special giveaway!
Enter for a chance to win the Double Wings Necklace in sterling silver from the Freedom & Hope Collection.
Contest rules (US residents only):
1. Must be a fan of Susan Suh Jewelry on facebook and
2. Post a picture of you and your mother on the Susan Suh Jewelry fan page.
Contest begins: NOW
Contest Ends: May 1, 2010
The winner will be announced on May 1st at 2pm @RS POP-UP Shop, 501 Lexington Ave. & 47th St. NYC.
Freedom & Hope has inspired both her dreams and her jewelry.
Second Sundays Guitar Series: Brad Richter
Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
Sunday May 9th, 4pm
Recognized as one of the leading guitarists and guitar composers of the 21st century, Brad Richter has reinvigorated the guitar repertoire with a freshness and unaffectedness that transcends preconceived genres.
Brad began to compose music and teach himself to play guitar age 12. By 18, having had no formal musical training, he was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago where he began performing, composing, and eventually teaching professionally. After completing his undergraduate degrees in performance and composition, Brad accepted a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London where he studied with guitarist Carlos Bonell. He became the first guitarist in the college’s history to win the coveted Thomas Morherr Prize, and went on to win the Royal College of Music guitar competition before completing his Master’s degree and returning to the US to continue his concert career.
Throughout North America and Europe, Brad has performed as a soloist, with renowned chamber ensembles and in duos with artists such as Grammy winning cellist, David Finckel of the Emerson String Quartet. His performances and compositions are frequently heard on NPR and PBS stations around the United States and he has also written and performed the score for the Emmy award winning PBS television series, The Desert Speaks.
While at home in Tucson, Arizona, Brad teaches music at the University of Arizona and is the Artistic Director of Lead Guitar!, a not-for-profit he co-founded in 2006 which establishes guitar programs in schools around the country with large populations of at-risk-youth. He also enjoys hiking, running, biking and playing his guitar in the mountains and deserts that surround Tucson. The rugged beauty of the American southwest continues to be a source of inspiration for much his music.
“Richter’s compositions carry the audience away into a world of magical sounds. He captures typical American themes and transforms them into imaginative original music. His cultivated playing is as highly developed as the intelligent sound language of his compositions which move the listener with its emotional depths.”
(Concertino 1/2004)
co-presented by the NYCCGS and Roger Smith Arts
The Solarium, 16th floor at The Roger Smith Hotel
Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese
pay at the door, cash only
For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
or call 212.339.2092.
Science Friction #2: A Salon Discussion Series
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
The Hottest Artists in Science, A Salon Discussion Series curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa, M.D
The Penthouse, The Roger Smith Hotel Sunday, May 2nd 2010 4-6pm
Tickets are free, seating is limited
Roger Smith Arts in pleased to announce Science Friction, a discussion series addressing the touted and contested grounds of collaborations between arts and sciences.
In this salon-style event, two notable artscientists will present their individual and collaborative work followed by a Q&A session.
Science Friction #2 will include Adrienne Klein, Director of Special Projects in the Office of Research at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is also an artist and co-Director of Science And The Arts, a National Science Foundation-supported series of public programs. Also speaking is Virgil Wong, an artist, and Associate Director of Web & Multimedia at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is also Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School, and a PhD candidate in Cognitive Studies and Intelligent Technologies at Columbia University.
For more information, or to reserve seats please contact Danika Druttman at email: rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or phone: 212.339.2092
A Salon Discussion Series
The Penthouse, The Roger Smith Hotel
Sunday, May 2nd 2010
4-6pm
Tickets are free, seating is limited
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 performance art and site-specific installation exhibits, jazz and acoustic singer/songwriter concerts, poetry readings, chamber music concerts, and ongoing speaker series, all with leading creative intellectuals of their various fields.
Space Rhythm Drawings-Flowers, May 14-June 4
Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
April 26th, 2010 The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce ‘Space Rhythm Drawings- Flowers, an installation by Ga Hae Park. This work will consist of 200 cut paper drawings on the floor and walls of the gallery.
Park’s work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping, and layering positive and negative space, into rhythms. The paper is meticulously cut and composed, opened and closed, with a focus on creating lines that specify coherent patterns of light and shadows on a grid, forming a visual musical structure. In essence, the paper itself becomes the instrument that draws light into musical patterns.
Park has tried to create living forms and images of flowers with cut paper combined with color, sound and light, expressing inner rhythms with a feeling. This musical structure-living forms of the flowers, is an abstract and metaphysical realm. Music, by evoking that abstract space, inspires Park to create new spaces through her art. For Space Rhythm Drawings- Flowers, Ga Hae Park will combine Sonatas, BWV 1030 -1035 by Johann Sebastian Bach.
For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration in Art. www.thelabgallery.com
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Photos: Adam Wallace
Bennyroyce Royons CHRONOS
Posted on 23. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
Future artist in The LAB Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel has an amazing set of performances this weekend at University Settlement in New York City. Have a look at these spectacular shows as a sneak peak to what’s about to take place at The LAB Gallery of the Roger Smith Hotel!
BENNYROYCE DANCE PRODUCTIONS’
CHRONOS PROJECT
An evening of dance on a theme of time…
Featuring World Premieres by
Brian Gibbs
Nilas Martins
Monique Meunier
Bennyroyce Royone
DATE: April 22-24, 2010
TIME: 7:30PM
LOCATION: 184 Eldridge Street, NY
ADMISSION: $15 General ($10 Student & Seniors)
WWW.BENNYROYCE.COM
WWW.UNIVERSITYSETTLEMENT.ORG
“Backstage Transmission” The Installation Process: Time Lapse Video
Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
Morgan O’Hara’s Live Transmission drawings track, in real time, the vital movement of living beings, transcending both figuration and abstraction, executing a direct neural translation from one human action into another. Drawing methodically with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands, as time-based performance, O’Hara condenses movement into accumulations of graphite line which combine the controlled refinement of classical drawing with the unbound sensuality of spontaneous gesture. Time-space coordinates for each drawing are described with great precision in the titles.
The source for this site-specific wall drawing was a pencil drawing done in Japan in 2001. The situation took place in Kid Ailack Hall in Tokyo where 40 performance artists were walking through their performances in a large stage area, identifying places where props were to be placed, where lighting technicians needed to place a spotlight, where and when technicians were to produce sound for each performance. O’Hara sat alone in the audience area and drew the movement of all these proceedings, tracking each person as he or she crossed and re-crossed the stage area. She made one large drawing of all observable movement for four hours in that space.
For this site, the 2001 stage-blocking drawing was photographed, downloaded into a computer, printed in sections, copied onto acetate and projected in sections onto the walls of the LAB using an overhead projector. The work progressed from left to right. Thirty volunteers from Fordham University, the School of Visual Arts, artsengine, LAB supporters, and occasional passersby assisted Morgan O’Hara with the painting. The modus operandi was to paint black the spaces between the lines, allowing the lines to emerge on their own from the white walls.
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A site-specific wall drawing is a drawing which is done specifically for a particular space. Concept, scale, proportion and architectural elements must all be taken under careful consideration. This particular drawing was selected by O’Hara from among many possibilities as the best one for this particular space. In the nearby theatre district of New York as well as in the many concert halls not far from the Roger Smith Hotel, preparations for performance are taking place every day. It is hoped that this drawing will call attention to the many unnoticed backstage activities which support the performing arts.
Live Transmission is on view 24/7 at The LAB (for installation + performance art) thru May 7th, 2010.
