RSPOP Emerging Designers Fashion Week 2011
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by melissagonzalez in Events, fashion
EMERGING DESIGNERS SPRING/SUMMER 2011 COLLECTIONS
Main Event:
The main event of the week will be 5 days of daily fashion installations in the Lab Gallery in conjunction with selected items for sale at RS POP Shop.
The week will highlight designers of both women and menswear whose styles incorporate versatility, sensuality and the true spirit of fostering entrepreneurship.
At 2pm and 6pm daily, the Lab Gallery will act as a runway and live billboard, including seats inside the gallery space available by invite only for VIP’s, press and sponsors. The 2pm show will be followed by a live interview by RS POP Co-Founder Melissa Gonzalez with the designer presentations projecting out into the intersection at 47th Street and Lexington Avenue. You can see current videos at: http://www.rspopshop.com/designers. Following the presentations there will be an invite-only sponsored cocktail reception throughout the week at Lily’s.
Here is the Lineup!
September 10th- Fashion Night Out with Ricardo Rojas Salon & Makeup by Mojica
September 13th- Tribal Couture & Modalistas.com
September 14th- Sandra Baquero & Sohung Designs
September 15th- CEOLA and Blynk by Dominique Sade Sponsored byModalistas.com
September 16th- ECO Gir Sustainable Style Sponsored by Bagir
The Week’s Events are Sponsored by:
The Roger Smith Hotel, Lily’s, POP Chips , IZZE Sparkling Juice, Mapflex, Makeup by Mojica with Jing Ai Natural and Organic Cosmetics and Alaa of ZIBA Salon
All runways shows will be streamed live and open to the public from 47th & Lex sidewalk
Seats inside are by invite only!
Rooftop Labor Day BBQ @RShotel!
Posted on 27. Aug, 2010 by admin in Events
come relax on henry’s rooftop
for a labor day bbq
september 6, 2010 5-10pm
$25 per person includes local draft beer
tax and gratuity not included
cheeseburgers, hot dogs, vegetable shish kebob,
pulled pork bbq, grilled chicken,
coleslaw, corn, chopped salad, watermelon, lemon bars.
for details and reservations call: 212-339-2097
Fashion Night Out @ RS POP Shop & Lab Gallery- September 10th!
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by melissagonzalez in Events, fashion
RS POP will be participating in this seasons Fashion Week and FNO shopping extravaganza!
Special guest Ricardo Rojas and his salon crew will be POPPING UP to style
along with Denise Mojica of Makeup by Mojica (http://www.makeupbymojica.com/) and Jing Ai Cosmetics
with a 6pm Runway with Animated Closet
Yummy Snacks and Sips Provided by POP Chips, Sprinkle Splash Bakery & IZZE Sparkling Juice at RS POP
And RICARDO Punch Drink Specials at Lily’s Bar.
A little more about Ricardo…. In his fifteen year career, Ricardo has worked with a multitude of celebrities day to day and in preparation for red carpet events including the Oscars, Grammy’s, movie premieres, charity galas and more. His celebrity clientele includes such luminaries as Cher, Marisa Tomei, Angela Bassett, Jane Seymour, Sharon Stone, Gina Gershon, Liv Tyler, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum, Amber Valetta, Gisele Bündchen, Bar Rafaeli, Mischa Barton, Rossy De Palma, Paris Hilton, Aimee Osbourne, Natasha Bedingfield, Carmen Kass, and Donna Karan. In addition, Ricardo spent eight years as the personal stylist for Donatella Versace.
Join us in person or via ustream.tv at 6pm to see the live show!
See more at www.rspopshop.com
The LAB: 2010 Performance and Installation Schedule
Posted on 18. Aug, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Community, LAB Gallery
Performance & Installation
Schedule
Fall 2010
Shopping For Life
Kristina Skovby
September 20-24th 2010
Shopping for Life is a performance piece driven by Conscious Consumerism, a social movement that is based around increased awareness of the impact of purchasing decisions on the environment and the consumers health and life in general. Skovby will use her body and a shopping cart to explore the relationship between societies wish to make ethical purchases as an expression of their moral choices, and their capitalist inclined desire to consume to excess, in the pursuit of happiness.
Kristina Skovby is a performance artist from Denmark. She is a former student of the Martha Graham School, where she studied repertory with Pearl Lang. Her own work has previously been presented at Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater (Brooklyn), Gowanus Arts Building (Brooklyn), The Brecht Forum (New York City), The Martha Graham Center (New York City), The Merce Cunningham Studio (New York City) and in Spinvox Street Events in New York City and San Francisco. Skovby was recently involved in a production by InOktober at Here Arts Center (New York City), and is currently working with Nu Dance Theater in a site specific performance for the Botanical Garden on East 6th St in New York City.
All Intellectual Animals
are Dangerous
Yeon Jin Kim
Curator: Joel Carreiro
October 7-29th 2010
All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous is a multi-media installation offering the viewer a more intimate experience than usually found with public art projects. The windows of the gallery will be whited-out except for several small apertures, which will reveal various room interiors constructed out of paper and graphite, depicting an array of characters and events. Like Hitchcock`s Rear Window, each opening will give the audience a glimpse into different lives, however in All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous some rooms are inhabited by animals, some by people and one by an enormous spider. They are all presided over by a giant “Alice in Wonderland” –like character. Several of the interiors are small and present intimate, three–dimensional static tableau, and in a scale jump, two of them open onto larger spaces with narrative video projections, which are made by filming paper and graphite models. Passers-by may experience the piece as a cross between the viewing holes cut in a construction wall and the window displays on Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. On the busy streets of mid-town, this piece provides a voyeuristic experience of a fantastic realm populated by unusual and anthropomorphic creatures, all governed by a dream logic.
Yeon Jin Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, receiving her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA from Hunter College. She has shown work at the Islip Art Museum (Long Island), the Anne Street Gallery (Newburgh NY), the Storefront Artists Project (Pittsfield, MA), the Catskill Art Society, and Times Square Gallery (New York City). Kim’s videos have been screened in Seoul, Egypt, Germany and New York City. She has recently completed residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs NY), the Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca NY), BRIC/BCAT (Brooklyn) and the Islip Art Museum. Kim is a recipient of awards from both the Tony Smith Fund and the Ahl Foundation, and is currently an artist in residence at Henry Street Settlement. She teaches at the Ashcan Studio in Manhattan.
Joel Carreiro is based in New York City and directs the MFA Program at Hunter College. As an independent curator he has organized exhibitions for the Rotunda Gallery (Brooklyn) the Rockland Center for the Arts (Rockland NY) and the Hopper House Art Center (Nyack NY), as well as the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, and the Intar Gallery (New York City). He currently has a solo exhibition at Fairfield University in Connecticut, which will travel next year to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and then to Muehlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is also currently co-curating, with Brett De Palma, an exhibition for the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor, New York, called Utopia and Wallpaper.
The Dressing Room
Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi
November 8-26th 2010
The Dressing Room is a duet created by Nu dance Theater in collaboration with the architects Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon. Trying to reconnect with themselves and each other, two women face their own shadows in order to find intimacy. Tearing apart the many layers resisting vulnerability, together they travel through an invisible crowd of unspoken beliefs and opinions. The fish bowl environment of The LAB offers an inherent and incredibly rich tension to the exploration of intimacy. How to transgress the unspoken, publicly and openly, without only provoking, but more importantly going beyond our stigma of sexuality and gender differentiations.
Eva Perrotta, originally from France, first studied theater before focusing on her dance training in Paris, Buenos Aires and New York. She performed for several years with various choreographers and directors in France, Argentina, and the United States. She founded Nu Dance Theater in 2005 and since then her work has been presented in more than 50 venues throughout the Unites States. Recently, she was commissioned to choreograph for the Martha Graham Young Artist Program and was produced by Triskelion Arts Theater (Brooklyn), among others. Following the success of Hinterland, a Site Specific performance exclusively created in 2009 for a former synagogue renovated into a four story house, Nu Dance Theater has been invited to create a new site specific work for the Botanical Garden on East 6th St in New York City.
Sophie Bortolussi was born in France where she started her training in modern, contemporary and improvisational dance. In 2002, Sophie received a grant from the French Ministry Of Culture and Communication and a full scholarship from The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in New York. In 2004, Sophie became a member of the Martha Graham Company and since 2005, Sophie has been working with the director and choreographer Martha Clarke, on multiple projects, including Kaos, Garden of Earthly Delights and Angel Reapers. She has also performed with AMDaT and Drastic Action/ Aviva Geismar. Sophie is a founding member of Nu Dance Theater. She became choreographer Assistant for Nu Dance Theater in 2007 and Artistic Associate of Nu Dance Theater in 2009.
Without Name
Verónica Peña Martinez /Curator: Creighton Michael
December 10-31th 2010
Without Name is a reconstruction of an ephemeral installation/performance created in 2008 in response to the loss of the artist’s father. In order to feel closer to him, Verónica Peña Martinez creates the world of the absent, and transforms herself into one of them. Her work is inspired by her desire to experience the union between the absent and the present. For Without Name, Martinez will cover the gallery with a thin layer of plastic and, thinking of the garage where her father died, she will paint red over the plastic. The artist will cross the room with strings from wall to wall. Using the strings, she will build a sculptural group evoking an encounter, and arrange and rearrange masses of paper until the sculptures convey a presence. Covered in a skin of plastic and paint, Martinez will sit or stand in a corner, a living sculpture, numb for hours. When performing, she cannot see, only hear. Hearing is the last sense we lose when we are dying… she will build the space and wait for her father to come.
Verónica Peña Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist from Spain, currently living and working in New York City. She received her BFA in Painting from The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and her MFA from Stony Brook University (New York) with a focus on installation/performance and video. Martinez work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy, and the United States. In New York her work has been featured in “Spain In The City” at the Armory Show 2010 (Gabarron Foundation), in “A Book About Death” at the Queens Museum of Art, in the “13th DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival” at the DUMBO Arts Center and The Parrish Art Museum (Long Island). In Spain, her work has been exhibited at Casa de America (Madrid), Fundacion Antonio Saura (Cuenca), Museo Orus (Zaragoza), Fundacion Caja Rioja (La Rioja), and The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia). Martinez has been a recipient of the Socrates-Erasmus Grant, the Juan Genoves Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fellowship, and a candidate for the Dedalus Foundation Grant. She has recently published The Presence Of The Absent, a thesis about her body of work.
Creighton Michael received his MA in art history from Vanderbilt University and a MFA in painting and multimedia from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and a Golden Foundation for the Arts award in painting. His work is in various public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn Museum, and Denver Art Museum. Michael has had solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and art centers in New York City and throughout the United States, including The High Museum of Art (Atlanta); Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah NY) and the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center (Queens NY). He has also shown internationally, in Copenhagen, Montreal and Reykjavík. In the November 2010, Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael, will be on view at The College of Saint Rose (Albany New York) Michael has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Hunter College, New York City since 2005 and is a member of American Abstract Artists and the International Sculpture Center, where he was recently elected to the Board of Directors.
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
For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092
THE PANMAN REPORT; SPAIN WINS THE WORLD CUP!
Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by admin in Community
The Panman Report: During my last trip to Spain I learned of the oracle octopus, Pulpo Paul. Apparently a german octopus predicted the victors of every game in the German bracket and eventually predicated Spain to beat Holland in the finals. It was mayhem in Spain as this was their first ever World Cup victory.
The owner of Pulpo Paul would not sell his golden goose but would the clairvoyant Octopus to a Spanish citizen with the understanding that his transportation costs would be covered and that they would not prepare “A la plancha”.
Talk about an Xtreem Fan
What is the strangest Sports tradition that you know of? While in Spain, I purchased Spain World Cup Soccer limited edition Tshirts that I will present to the first five people who share their story in the comments section of this blog.
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Be sure to Share, Comment, and Engage!
Looking forward to hearing your stories.
Panman
DOLICIOUS SUMMER Collection arrives at RS POP Shop
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by melissagonzalez in Events, fashion
DOLICIOUS SUMMER
From Paris design houses and magazines to New York City, DOLITA PARIS arrives with her sensual and seductive summer collection.
Her clothes fit like a second skin and enhance all the natural beautiful female attributes. To Dolita every woman is her muse!
“DOLICIOUS is for the free-spirited, self assured woman who is youthful at any age.”
Drop your business card and you can win a DOLITA “Sexy in the City” design at 6pm daily!!
visit us online at www.rspopshop.com
Soundstorm: A Kinetic Installaion
Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, LAB Gallery
By Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli
July 9-30th, 2010
June 15th, 2010 The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce ‘Soundstorm’, a kinetic installation by Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli. This work intends to create a dialogue between art and nature, using sculptural elements that move according to the barometric pressure in New York City, at any given time. Isobars are represented by a shifting motorized web of pulleys and ropes that envelope the gallery and produce metallic noise. These sounds will be piped outside the gallery to complete the tableau vivant.
Daniel Rothbart’s work looks at the relationship between nature, urban postmodern identity and metaphysics. Rothbart holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and won a Fulbright grant to Naples, Italy in 1990. His work can be found in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recent projects include exhibitions at the Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. His latest European exhibition took place at Galerie Depardieu in Nice in June 2010.
Maia Anthea Marinelli’s work explores themes of women in relation to their cultural environment through conceptual strategies with sculpture, land art, photography, performance and interactive installations.Marinelli holds a B.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence Italy, and an M.F.A. from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale of Mediterranean Artists, the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, Italy.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
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
IMANI ALEXANDER ARRIVES AT RS POP Shop
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by melissagonzalez in fashion
CEOLA, by Imani Alexander
New York City based fashion designer, Imani Alexander debuted her first resort collection in June of 2008. She was an instant success and was tapped to sell at some of the finest boutiques in the West Village.
Her inspiration? Extensive travel abroad and the her beloved grandmother, Ceola Holland.
The collection incorporates fine silk fabrics and are feminine and flattering- from the beaches of St. Tropez to the streets of NYC!
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION JUNE 17th, 6-8PM
Rspop shop presents: Ceola by Imani Alexander from Panman Productions on Vimeo.
RS POP & Fashion Art Gallery presents: Studio 2020
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by DanielKalmar in fashion
A Virtual Closet Selling Fashion in the Future
An original fashion concept, Studio 2020 is an exhibition showcasing a virtual closet that links technology to the ultimate design in the year 2020.
In partnership with RS POP the exhibit duals as a pop up shop allowing the entire closet for sale to guests and visitors.
Short film clips directed by Gabriel Barcia- Colombo will, illustrate in comic form, NYC’s character and style in the yr 2020.
In lieu of Sex and the City and the Brooklyn International Film Festival design brands s like Bang and Olufsen, TELFAR, Melissa Shoes and LaQuan Smith compliment this seasons biggest event with style and luxury.
Studio 2020: Fashion Art Gallery @ RS Pop up Shop from Panman Productions on Vimeo.
Chef Daniel Mowles introduces…
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Lily's Restaurant
Daniel Mowles has developed a brand new Lunch Menu for the summer season at Lily’s Restaurant! Here’s a sneak peak at what’s waiting for all the hungry New Yorkers strolling down Lexington Avenue.
Drop by Lily’s to taste these fantastic dishes and the rest of the Lunch Menu!
