From Pharell’s artist talk series from a few years ago
Come check us out we’ll be in the building with all items discounted!
POST ANALOG STUDIO
Adam Parker Smith
Alan Resnick
Anne Vieux
Ara Peterson
Ben Jones
Brian Bress
Caitlin Cherry
Cathrin Hoffmann
Clinton King
Emma Stern
Jeff Elrod
Jonathan Chapline
Josh Reames
Kara Joslyn
Maja Djordjevic
Matt Hansel
Michael Dotson
Morgan Blair
Otto Ford
Pedro Pedro
Rafaël Rozendaal
Rannva Kunoy
Robert Lazzarini
Robin F. Williams
Sven Loven
Takeshi Murata
April 20th - May 19th, 2019
OPENING: Saturday, April 20th, from 6-9pm
The Hole is proud to announce the third installment of our ongoing curatorial project examining digital media's impact on art making with Post Analog Studio. This show widens the previous focus on digitally-influenced painting to look more closely at digital video and sculpture with specific interest in CAD rendering and 3D modeling. From the massive wave-distorted fence sculpture by Robert Lazzarini to computer modeled porn-adjacent oil paintings by Emma Stern, this group includes twenty-six artists from established to emerging, pixels to paint to 3D printing.
Lee "Scratch" Perry: MIRROR MASTER FUTURES YARD
Curated with Lorenzo Bernet
April 19 – June 2, 2019
Opening Reception: April 18, 6-8PM
Swiss Institute is pleased to present MIRROR MASTER FUTURES YARD, the first ever institutional exhibition of artwork by Lee “Scratch” Perry. The show will feature a newly commissioned sculptural installation, as well as works produced in Perry’s legendary Black Ark studio in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 1990’s and in his Blue Ark studio in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, where he now lives.
Lee “Scratch” Perry is renowned for his pioneering role in the development of reggae and dub music, along with his spectacular presence as a self-proclaimed prophet donning mirror-jeweled hats and painted boots lined with bible pages. Ever since he hand-painted stripes onto newly-produced Heart of the Congos record covers in 1977, Perry’s artistic output has gradually developed into a multidisciplinary practice that expands over the rooms he inhabits, the clothes and accessories he wears, and the totemic structures he erects outside his homes.
The walls of the gallery at SI feature works and pictorial material from Perry’s studios, where a collection of images has accumulated over time into a Byzantine patchwork of symbols and signs. In the Jamaican tradition of the yard show, the site-specific floor installation takes the form of a spiritual home ground that Perry has arranged ritualistically with rocks and stones gathered from the shores of the island of Manhattan and basins filled with water from the Hudson and Harlem Rivers. Characteristic of Perry’s Gesamtkunstwerk style, figurines of the Black Madonna of the rural alpine Abbey of Einsiedeln are placed among laptop computers, printed out stacks of poetry, dug-up notebooks filled with spiritual graffiti, mirror balls and CDs, along with a plethora of other materials,
Perry’s mode of art making is process-oriented and informed by music production techniques such as re-mixing, re-versioning and modulating existing materials. At Swiss Institute, the installation includes signs that he has commissioned and painted over, collages made collaboratively, and fan art. It combines the objects that he relentlessly collects, such as microphone cables, international currency, shiny stickers with the face of Haile Selassie, stuffed animals, and octagonal mirrors, as well as video recordings of his daily life. Deeply influenced by a fusion of religious beliefs and practices, including the Yoruba tradition of Ettu, Obeah, Rastafarianism, and Christianity, Perry transforms these materials by burning, painting, layering, collaging, gluing, exposing to sun, wind and rain, and burying. In this way, Perry incorporates them into a never-complete artistic cosmos untethered from notions of linear space and time.
On the occasion of Lee “Scratch” Perry: MIRROR MASTER FUTURES YARD, Swiss Institute is pleased to present a public program including a reasoning and listening by Ishion Hutchinson and Sheldon Shepherd on Friday, April 26 and a conversation between Diedrich Diederichsen and Nicole Smythe-Johnson on Wednesday, May 1. Details to be announced soon.
Lee “Scratch” Perry OD (b. 1936 in Kendal, Jamaica) lives and works between Einsiedeln, Switzerland and Negril, Jamaica. He has worked with artists including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Beastie Boys, and The Clash, among many others, and was awarded a Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2003. Recent projects include Lee “Scratch” Perry at Haus zur Liebe, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (2018) and Jamaica Jamaica! at Philharmonie de Paris, France (2017).
Lorenzo Bernet (b. 1986 in Zürich, Switzerland) studied at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna and Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. He is a co-founder of MUDA MUDA MURI in Zürich.
Lee “Scratch” Perry: MIRROR MASTER FUTURES YARD is made possible in part through the support of the Canton of Schwyz. Swiss Institute extends its deepest gratitude to the lenders to the exhibition: Christopher James Durning and XL Recordings. In Kind Support Provided by Recess. Special thanks to Mireille Perry, Noel Perry, Papa-Son, Ulrike and Giulano Bernet, Andrea Lewis, David Katz, Annie Paul, Haus Zur Liebe, Invernomuto, Volker Schaner, Ishion Hutchinson, Alyssa Davis and Isis Sem
Wednesday April 10th, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Gr gallery will host a special event for the launch of two individual prints by Bisco Smith and Yoon Hyup, specifically designed for their MIDNIGHTS exhibition. Like for the show the concept of the prints will be inspired by the artistic energy driven through the late night rebellion and the galvanizing city lights in the dark.
Artists will be attending the event and will sign the prints on site.
Another pop up in LES on Monday
Great Bates New York Bash This Monday April 8th 6-10pm!! Bates work will be on view April 8th-11th 12-6pm. 191 Henry st.
Joe Iurato, The Run Up, 2019
"Spotlight: Stencil" a group exhibition surveying contemporary stencil art debuts at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City with an opening night reception on Saturday, April 6th from 6pm-8pm. Some of the artists will be in attendance.
Eelus
Jana & JS
Joe Iurato
Mando Marie
OakOak
Penny
A Museum Let Street Artists Do Whatever They Want On Its Walls. Here’s The Result. Clink link below for story and photos. Photo here is Saber.
