Friday November 8th and Saturday November 9th will be the State of Wonder grand opening trunk show-a-palooza at PF Gallery. Yuri Shimojo, Rob Fischer, Cynthia Rojas, Linda Zimmerman, and Sara Woster will have work on hand for a one of a kind cash and carry event on Friday night.. Andrew Rawlinson will e delivering a be-in lecture about religious philosophy, rock ‘n roll and other sundry exasperations of Saturday night.
Emily Chatton constructs environments influenced by nature and partial memories with a large mylar installation and 14 small paintings in India ink. Chatton’s interest in the materials and architecture of the industrial past inform the vignettes as quiet odes to the Natural History Museums in London and New York. The paintings are contained with uniformly broad, steel frames. These portal views to inked dioramas house liminal life forms and landscapes. The layers define or obscure the represented and create latticed paths, which intersect and switch rhythms like a tartan. The installation in the window is loosely hung in layers. Space between the veils of mylar allows for mobility and an aqueous quality.
Kate Minford considers her thread sculptures landscapes. The viewer is positioned in extreme close up to the picture plane of overlain thread. Loft between the fallen threads determines undulating, veined surfaces with shifting perspectival emphases. With this work, Minford extends her interest in strata. She describes the “archeological condition” as a means to examine the remains of an action and how acts of layering and uncovering alter form. The use of gold spray points to the emblematically precious or the appearance of preciousness. Traces of opulent jewels are outlined in white silhouettes on golden paper. They appear to have been laid with care to individuate each trinket in a template. In the installation titled Further into Forever, 2013;; the surface of the wood panel is marked with the vestigial form of a gold soaked rope. Like a curious remnant from a fairytale, gold chains extrude and spill from the panel’s surface.
Megan Suttles employs twenty pounds of splayed bobby pins in a large installation of columns that reach from floor to ceiling. Her use of the pin, a small and domestic object in a cabled grid, continues Suttles’ concern with anxiety and the incremental accumulation towards critical mass. Control and collapse are inherent in the explosive gesture of tape in Blow Up, 2013. Layers of resin encase the fragments of metallic duct tape suspended like ants in a stratum of amber. The gesture within a geometric form explores tension between restraint and disorder and the way anxiety can be concealed with an appearance of balance. These works provide form to anxiety and demonstrate its objecthood in the physical world.
RSVP, stop by and order a pizza on your cell phone from some local pizza place if you’re hungry.
Joey “Cups” Gallagher is dropping a new short film “Stay Away,” and accompanying zine Thursday night at Picture Farm, 338 Wythe Ave bet. S. 1st and S. 2nd St. in Williamsburg Brooklyn. 7:30-10:30. Starring Barry Mcgee, Alex Olson, Kunle Martins, Andy Lyons, the Brothers Marshall, Charles R Smith and the undisputed King of Malibu, New York’s very own Phat Sam!
Christopher Anderson’s latest book SON was featured in Time Magazine this week. The book launches with accompanied photo show at Picture Farm on Friday September 13th 6pm – 9pm.
GUP speaks to Christopher Anderson about his upcoming book SON, and the process and delights of being a photographer. Click on the photo.
Last month, this epic surf/travel film by Cyrus Sutton premiered at Picture Farm. For those of you who missed it on the night or need to watch it again, enjoy!
Picture Farm is very excited to be presenting the launch of Christopher Anderson’s upcoming book, SON. The open is slated for September 13th, and will be an opportunity to pick up a piece of the important photographer’s personal opus.
We are super excited to host the East Coast premiere of Cyrus Sutton’s latest film “Compassing” at Picture Farm Gallery. Cyrus is a DIY force in the surfing world and a guy with perspective to offer. He started the surfing do-it-yourself documentary center known as Korduroy, and keeps track of his meanderings at Regressing Forward.
Saturday night Picture Farm will be hosting a family event for the neighborhood and beyond. A great opportunity to spend some time doing crafts, singing and dancing and having a great time with all ages. Come for a family date night…