Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 7th 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Young and The Restless, Part II
July 6 through 19th
Opening July 7 6-8pm
Emerging Writers Reading, Tuesday July 14, 6:30-8pm
"Freed from the limitation of medium or methodology, open to exploration and experimentation, unafraid to make a statement, these are six artists on the move. Their art--experiential, open-ended and engaged--beckons, inviting us to interact and react, to contemplate and investigate these embodied narratives and the possibilities of vision"
Sue Canning, from her introduction to "The Young and The Restless."
Michael Steinberg Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of The Young and the Restless, Part II, an exhibition of 6 emerging artists based in New York. The show questions the contemporary concepts of medium and artistic practice: by turns each of these artists ponder and re-work the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Building on personal experience--the artists hail from diverse ethnic backgrounds including Grenada, Brazil, and Murmansk, as well as native New Yorkers, and deal with issues equally as diverse--from colonialism, genocide and cultural erasure to aesthetic questions of color, composition and the nature of light. Christian Weikop, in his April 4 review of the Gordon Parks exhibit in the Saatchi Online Magazine, likened the 6 artists to the artists of the early 20th century Brucke movement, in their earthiness, dynamism and dedication to Utopian artistic goals.
Shervone Neckles, Tommy Mintz, Clara Fialho, Nikita Pashenkov and Elise Co, and Will Corwin, have been showing together for the past two years--spring 2007 at The Flushing Town hall (a Smithsonian Affiliate), to great local acclaim, The Pickled Art Centre in Beijing, may 2008, this past fall-spring, at Nancy Walker's Gallerythe, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and the Gordon Parks Gallery in the Bronx, from March through May, 2009.
Shervone Neckles is the recipient of several Joan Mitchell grants and a Skowhegan Fellowship. She explores the African American Experience, as well as issues of Carribean colonialism through printing techniques as wide-ranging as printing on wall-paper and fabric to printing on bread. Her wall-hangings, quilts and hand-made books, redefine the cultural significance of traditional craft forms, especially when recast through the eyes of the opressed. Tommy Mintz teaches photography at Queensborough and Kingsborough Colleges. His digital/photographic "Cheap Shots" are both a rejection of the carefully staged high-production images of Joel Sternfeld, with whom he studied at Sarah Lawrence, but an acknowledgement of the need for contemporary photographers to develop a singular and recognizeable voice, often through digital modification. Clara Fialho graduated from Cooper Union, but Grew up in Brazil. Her lyrical and abstract paintings transform the idea of pattern and texture, and though seemingly very beautiful and decorative, have a darker, psychological, and critical content. Elise Co and Nik Pashenkov are cofounders of the technology and design company Aeolab. Elise and Nik met at the MIT Media Lab while stuying there under John Maeda, and have been artists-in-residence in places as varied as the Anderson Ranch Art Center and Eyebeam Atelier in NYC. They create bottles of light with color-manipulated LEDS, and drawings that glow and move, using industrial paints and computer circuitry. Will Corwin is a regular at alternative art spaces such as chashama, the LaMama Gallery in New York, and Gallery Aferro in Newark, and has shown in Beijing and Taipei on a grant from the State department as part of the President's Initiative for Global Cultural Exchange. His installation/paintings deal with the connections between the desecration of art objects and the disciplines of art/architecture and archeology.
