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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present "Crowd Control," a solo exhibition featuring recent work by Heidi Neff on view September 9 through October 2, 2022. The artist will host a guided tour of the exhibit on Saturday, September 17 from 2 to 3:30 at the gallery during Bushwick Open Studios. The gallery’s location in 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY, across the street from the Morgan Ave L train stop.

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"Crowd Control," as defined by the Collins Dictionary is “the management of crowds at sporting events, demonstrations, etc., to prevent trouble.” Neff’s work explores and questions the institutions and methods we use as a society to control ourselves. There is no shortage of ways that society is controlled. Police are called in to contain a group of people calling out systemic racism.  Is it a protest or a riot? Free speech or sedition? For the first time ever, the Supreme Court is taking away established rights as opposed to enshrining new ones. The resulting division in our country is causing major unrest. How will we be surveilled? By drones up above us or by the period trackers on our phones in our pockets? Is it my body my choice when it comes to masking or my body my choice when it comes to my uterus?

 

A 6 ft by 6 ft charcoal drawing of the 5 most conservative Supreme Court justices imposes its glare at you from across the space when you first walk in. Projected drones observe you from the ceiling. On one long wall of the gallery, Neff’s mixed media drawing series Riot Police follows the same police through eight different situations where they may for may not be welcome. "Crowd Control" is a multi-channel video installation of Neff’s frame-by-frame animation in which those mixed media pieces come to life. Other paintings and mixed media pieces are also paired with related animations.

 

"Crowd Control" is Neff’s first foray into multi-channel videos and ambient projections. Her background is as a painter leaning towards highly expressionistic narrative, and most of the animations and videos take directly from hand-drawn or painted pieces. Animation was a natural outgrowth of her inclination to explore multiple ideas and stories at the same time.  She is largely self-taught as an animator and prefers to do as much of the animation as possible on her iPad. 

 

Heidi Neff’s short animated film, “the Long Goodbye” is currently on the film festival circuit and has won several awards.  Heidi earned her MFA from University of Iowa and her BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She makes her home in Maryland with her husband and installation sound designer, Paul Chuffo, and their two children, Max and Maya. This is her third solo exhibition in New York.

 

Image: Heidi Neff, Detail "Kavanaugh," acrylic and oil on canvas, 9” x 16”, 2018

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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"Root Systems: Artist Collectives in NYC" examines the enduring legacy of grassroots artist-run collectives through a survey of marketing collateral, posters, fine art and oral and written histories. Amos Eno Gallery and Culture Push invite you "Show Don't Tell" - the 2022 Culture Push Symposium taking place on Sunday, July 17 from 3-5 pm. The symposium consists of a series of presentations taking place during this two-week exhibit. Guests can RSVP here.

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The symposium is part of the Culture Push partnership in "Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC, "an exhibit at Amos Eno Gallery. Culture Push and Amos Eno Gallery will be co-presenting a panel on practice by recent and current Culture Push Fellows from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice and Associated Artists. Please join Alexandra Hammond, Andrew Ingall, Ray Jordan Achan, and Zain Alam for interactive presentations and a Q&A portion. 

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The order for the presentations goes as follows: introductions made by Amos Eno Gallery and Culture Push, a grounding exercise led by Alexandra Hammond, then activities by artists Andrew Ingall, Ray Jordan Achan, Alexandra Hammond, and Zain Alam. A Q&A round will take place at the culmination of the event.

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Image: Graphic from Culture Push's Annual "Show Don't Tell Symposium 2022".

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Leave A Mark Or A Dime, an exhibition of recent
paintings by Robert A. McCann on view from June 9 through July 10th at the gallery’s 56 Bogart Street address in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

 

An opening reception will be held Friday, June 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. From 5 to 6 PM on the 10th there will be a special pre-reception with the artist for families with young children, the immunocompromised, and happy hour go-getters, where masking will be required of all but the little kiddos.

In his latest body of work, McCann continues to explore the shaky terrain of modern life as
interpreted by the untrustworthy narrator self. Inventive visual storytelling in the paintings
dissolves the distinctions between memories, current events, history, and dreams.

 

Developed over the last two years, McCann found inspiration for this series in becoming a first-time father at middle age, at the start of a worldwide pandemic. The unreal, constructed space of a painting is a good analog to a world where communication is fragmented and disinformation ascendant. The show’s title nods to this ambiguity of language distressed over time. The unresolved metaphors in this group of paintings allude to big themes of desire and loss, love and hope, progress, and society.

McCann sees himself as “a more-is-more” kind of painter. He approaches painting as a
fundamentally fictional space, where different kinds of idea can be approached from odd
angles. Sometimes he populates the work with pop culture figures of major and minor fame.

 

These figures will resonate in some way as personal mythologies that stand in for an
experience. They also serve as shorthand for a particular sort of character the viewer may
recognize. Further, the internet and social media can be seen to have flattened the barrier between celebrities and acquaintances, or between personal space and the news. The off kilter feeling of public and private being drunk from the same firehose has been another theme in McCann’s recent work.

The paintings that make up Leave A Mark Or A Dime are oil paint on canvas, linen, or panel.
The surfaces meander from thick to thin, rough to smooth, and careful to chaotic. The
multiplicity of painting—the impurity of it—is a guiding force. To physically make a picture that feels believable is a cathartic studio ritual.

Robert A. McCann is based in East Lansing, Michigan, where he teaches Painting and
Foundations at Michigan State University. His recent venues of solo exhibition include the
University of Arkansas Galleries in Little Rock, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the South Bend Museum of Art, and Artlink Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His artwork can also be seen in the Chicagoland area this fall in the three-person exhibition Layered Meanings at the Evanston Art Center.

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Image: detail, "The Well-Rehearsed Letter" Robert A. McCann

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno proudly invites guests to a Recalling the Chimæra: Solar Return Artist Salon. On offer will be chimærical beverages and an opportunity to chat with the artists! 

Each of the three exhibiting artists will offer a brief talk or statement about their work, and the year-long collaboration and conversations that led to the show. Informal conversation with attendees, and a chance to answer questions will follow. This event also marks a celebration of exhibiting artist Candace Jensen’s 36th solar return (birthday). 

Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public!

 

Exhibition on view from May 5th - June 5th, 2022.

                           

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to host the opening reception of "Sign of Frankenstein," curated by gallery member artist Robert McCann. Join us for light refreshments; artists and curator will be present. 

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A signal hovers in the evening sky.  A door becomes Death’s arm.  Patterns emerge and dissolve in oil.    Picnic forks bleed into fire’s smoke.  A familiar stranger is stitched together and animated with lightning. 

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Sign of Frankenstein, an exhibition of over twenty recent paintings by seven New York City based artists.  The artists do not share a singular theme or mode of representation or abstraction.  They are loosely affiliated by their layered practices.  In this show viewers are invited to consider painting as an aggregate media, to look to what is combined or collected. 

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Deep down in the roots of painting is the alchemy of mixture and hybridity.  The canvas is turned into an arena for intimately handling questions and ambiguities.   It is the coalescence of ways and means.  A container for gathered stories, myths, and memories.  And the compilation of moments, hours, and days.

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Artists in the exhibition include Charity Baker   Noga Cohen KellyAnne Hanrahan Tine Lundsfryd Jesse McCloskey  Nicole Parcher and Adi Blaustein Rejto .

 

Robert McCann has exhibited his work around the USA for over 20 years and he became an old dad for the first time in 2020.  He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Design at Michigan State University, where he teaches in Painting and Foundations.

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Image: KellyAnne Hanrahan, "People Being Outside" series.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery has partnered with Public Herald studios to offer gallery patrons an exclusive FREE virtual film-screening of ‘Invisible Hand’ in correlation with the Towards a New Animism exhibition. A limited number of tickets will be available in-gallery (limited to 100) for the virtual screening, which can be done from any personal web-browsing video/audio device this month.

 

The film can also be rented on-demand after the exhibition, for as little as $1 at https://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/ 

 

Invisible Hand is an award-winning, “paradigm shifting” documentary from Public Herald Studios about the Rights of Nature and community rights, narrated and executively produced by actor and advocate Mark Ruffalo.  

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Mark Ruffalo narrates a new documentary that critics call a “paradigm shifting” story about the global battle between Nature and society. Ruffalo, who signed on with Public Herald Studios as Executive Producer of INVISIBLE HAND in 2016, has spent years as a water defender and environmental advocate. “More and more, we are waking up to the fact that the world around us is being poisoned,” Ruffalo said. “The water, air and land have become toxic dumps, and the law is rigged against us.” 

 

Covering the Rights of Nature movement that began in Pennsylvania, USA in 2006, spread around the globe, and is now coming back home, INVISIBLE HAND weaves together fights in Pennsylvania and Ohio, the international fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and the adoption of Rights of Nature into Ecuador’s national constitution. Cradled in both Haudenosaunee prophecy and free market economic theory, the result is a film that asks, “If a corporation has rights, why can’t an ecosystem?” 

 

“People are adapting to these perils in daring and creative ways – and winning,” Ruffalo added. “INVISIBLE HAND shows how to fight the forces that put profit above all else while addressing the root cause of our flawed system.” 

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"The system is rigged to destroy Nature. But people are defying it and shaping another world.” - Director Melissa Troutman.

         

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Opening Reception for Towards a New Animism, a new exhibit featuring works by artists Candace Jensen, David Nakabayashi, Kathleen Vance, Jo Watko & Joyce Yamada, with Grant Johnson in the Project Space​

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Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public

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Exhibition on view from Jan 6-30, 2022

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Towards A New Animism, which includes the work of 6 artists whose practice observes and responds to the vital and infinitely complex relationships between humans and the living planet. The show also explores the possibilities for shifts in cultural focus, especially in the context of our universal crises; climate change, and ecosystem degradation and destabilization.  

 

“Animism” is an anthropological term used to define and categorize worldviews and spiritual beliefs which attribute soul or spirit to places, creatures and material. It implies that places, creatures and matter have animacy or agency, even if rather different from our own. The artwork included in Towards A New Animism offers both critiques and subtle alternatives to the flawed perspectives of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism, and posits moving toward a new ecological baseline; if we recognize the qualities of agency in non-human beings and matter, then navigating new relationships with them, and acknowledging their rights to exist and thrive, becomes imperative. 

 

This assembly of visual work joins conversations already happening between scientists, philosophers, activists, and thinkers of all stripes— synthesizing views which acknowledge that Life is self-generating, complex, deriving from relationships of both competition and co-operation, and insistently re-forming balance moment by moment through all interactions great and small.  There was a time when some in the sciences thought that life was nothing more than a mechanical process, like a machine— and so many of our cultural views still echo this. However, we are now invited to regard that as a radically outmoded idea, and to instead see life as a creative process, and to creatively participate and collaborate. This vision of humanity within a continuum of all beings related to each other, entwined and entangled, dependent on each other in mysterious and unexpected ways, is not a new idea exactly, but in this dire time, new ways of enacting and embracing this idea could be a vital and inspired turn.

 

And how do we get there? We start where we are; we become engaged in an erotic ecology with place and life through simple acts of observation, through reverent contemplation, and through curious attention— such as we see here in paint, writing, collage, sculpture, photography and recording. We build relationship to place, establish an awareness of beauty. Towards a New Animism proposes that a humble appreciation of complexity and cultivation of wonder will make possible what all of the knowledge of our dire circumstances hasn’t been able to do on its own— to inspire us to protect the long list of ‘things’ we love, and enable the list to grow ever longer.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Image: Candace Jensen, “TBR”, books, journal, pen, wooden bench, 2020​

Reception commemorating Amos Eno Gallery members' inaugural show in the Rear Gallery for Bushwick Open Studios tour 2021​

Saturday, September 18th

In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

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Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public

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Exhibition open in the Amos Eno Gallery Rear Gallery from Sept 16th - Sept 26th, 2021

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Featuring works by over half the gallery's membership, this small works show spans painting, sculpture and mixed media, and this limited engagement show is up September 17th - 26th during Amos Eno Gallery hours (Thurs-Sun, 12-6 PM). Don't miss your chance to view works by gallery members Tulu Bayar, Irja Boden, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Charleen Kavleski, Ligia Bouton, Candace Jensen, Kahori Kamiya, Jose-Ricardo Presman, Chris Esposito, Stephen March, Heidi Neff, David Olivant, Phil Swan, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Aaron Wilder and Joyce Yamada.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Image: Stephen March, "Dawn" 2020, acrylic and collage on canvas, 20"x10"​

Opening Reception with the artists and juror Melanie Delach​

Friday, July 23

In-person reception from 6-8 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

Light Refreshments, Artists will be present

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Free and open to the public

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Exhibition open July 23-30, 2021

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Amos Eno Gallery proudly presents Good Neighbors, a group exhibition juried by artist Melanie Delach. Selected works reflect on what it means to be a neighbor, how neighbors interact and the particular impact that neighbors have exerted during our recent global pandemic. Works on view reflect a broad range of disciplines, spanning mixed media, painting, sculpture and installation. Featured artists include: Mia Ari, Angela Arrocha, Ainsley Burrows, Efrat Baler, Eric Anthony Berdis, Gabrielle Benak, Noga Cohen, Kelwin Coleman, Judy Giera, Kay Healy, Michael Kondel, Tania Qurashi, Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez, and Katherine Volpe.

 

An opening reception will take place Friday, July 23rd at the gallery from 6-8 PM at the gallery’s 56 Bogart location in Brooklyn, NY. Visitors are invited to attend and meet the artists and juror to further explore the theme of this group show, on view at the gallery for one week only through July 31st. The selected theme, Good Neighbors, offers space to reconsider the networks we have formed through physical proximity: connections that became particularly loaded during a period of isolation and quarantine. Come and experience this stunning range of works from local artists in the Tri-state area during this summer group show.

 

About the Juror: Melanie Delach is a Queer mixed media artist from Queens, New York. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Adelphi University in 2017 and an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in New York and Philadelphia at RegularNormal NYC, Anna Zorina Gallery, LatchKey Gallery, the Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and more. Her recognitions include Fine Arts Venture Fund and The Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize. Her work is part of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts permanent collection. Delach has curated and juried exhibitions at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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Artwork image by Katherine Volpe.

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Opening Reception with the artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas

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Friday, April 23rd

Virtual reception from 5:30 PM EST

In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street

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Free and open to the public

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Amos Eno Gallery presents, Marching Across Your Lawn, The Grass is on Fire, an exhibition of new works by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, on view at the gallery from April 22-May 16, 2021. A virtual exhibition tour and presentation will take place at 5:30 PM on Friday, April 23rd via Zoom (link here) followed by an opening reception from 6-9 PM at the gallery’s location on 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY. 

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Meza-DesPlas’ current artworks are centered upon the act of marching: it is the simplest use of the physical body as a political force. Researching the history of women-led marches, Meza-DesPlas considers the role of the individual within a demonstration. Vast numbers of clamorous bodies in motion translate to a robust show of strength and determination; however, eventually, the individual goes home to their daily existence. When the protest is over, the pussy hats put away, signs disposed of and costumes packed up – is political activism embraced as an ongoing individual practice?

 

Figurative artworks, with minimized or nonexistent facial features, convey the individual subsumed by the larger group. Compositionally, these feminine bodies reflect the varying tempos and pauses of a demonstration thus illustrating the visual structure of marching. Meza-DesPlas’ nude figures exude vulnerability yet defiance; furthermore, they allude to art historical images of partially nude women representing political ideology. In the words of Beyoncé: ‘Okay, ladies, now let’s get in formation.’

 

Hand-sewn fiber works are featured in this exhibition. Meza-DesPlas’ embroidery of hair speaks to material culture, its relationship to identity and the sociological meaning of hair. A self-taught fiber artist, she approaches the process of stitching hair from a drawing perspective. Watercolors and a new video piece round out the exhibition. Bleeding watercolors are stained and layered to create figurative forms; the textural application of color conveys fleshy blemishes. "These United States", a video piece, begins with a montage: drawings emphasizing the faces of silenced women. A voice-over narration of an evocative mantra accompanies the imagery followed by three stanzas of poetry performed by the artist. 

 

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Latina artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas currently resides in Farmington, New Mexico. She has a MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art (Hoffberger School of Painting) and a BFA from the University of North Texas. Her artwork has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Articles about her artwork have appeared in several publications including the Huffington Post, Interview Magazine, and Wall Street International. Meza-DesPlas parallels the themes in her visual artwork with poetry and spoken word performances. Upcoming, in 2022, her artwork will be featured in the exhibition (curated by Karen Gutfreund) Agency: Feminist Art and Power at the Museum of Sonoma County in California.

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Closing Reception with the artist present for solo show by artist Jose-Ricardo Presman

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Sunday, March 14th from 4 PM

In-person at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street

Please RSVP:  https://www.facebook.com/events/413555796614524/

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Free and open to the public

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Amos Eno Gallery invites you to our final event for "The Illusion that Light Travels": New works by José-Ricardo Presman. The gallery will be open from 12-6 pm Sunday, culminating in a closing event featuring refreshments on Sunday, March 14th from 4:30-6 PM at the gallery space. Guests will be encouraged to keep masked when not enjoying refreshments, and to remain socially distanced throughout the event in line with municipal guidelines.

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José-Ricardo Presman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has exhibited in numerous solo shows at Amos Eno Gallery in New York and in various group shows throughout the US and Canada.

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Virtual Reception from 6:30 PM EST on Friday, 1/22 via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87350010998

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Free and open to the public.

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Join artist Heidi Neff as she discusses her process creating "The Long Goodbye": leading up to the election, Neff decided to make one frame-by-frame animation every day beginning on Election Day and ending on Inauguration Day itself. It is by nature a personal diary reflecting on all of the possible outcomes - and resulting worries – of this time period. Like the several months preceding it, there was plenty of madness to spare on a daily basis. Neff shares the YouTube premiere of this completed work as part of this virtual reception, followed by a Q&A with Amos Eno gallery director Audra Lambert. Please join us for the half hour long program and feel free to ask the artist questions at the conclusion of the virtual opening!

 

This exhibition also features limited edition prints available for purchase. An Artsy link will be added here once these works are live and available for sale (once the exhibition is open.) 

 

Zoom Link for Virtual Reception, "The Long Goodbye": https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87350010998

Two Virtual Tours Available:

• Tour #1 Begins 2:00 PM EST 

• Tour #2 Begins 4:00 PM EST

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Part of Virtual Bushwick Open Studios 2020

 

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to offer a virtual tour of this small works group show, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude." Referencing "The Inward Morning" by Henry David Thoreau, the exhibit contemplates on the transcendence of silence and stillness as a catalyst for hope. 

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Artists will discuss their work on view during these virtual tours with curator Audra Lambert:  attending artists include Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Irja Boden, Kahori Kamiya, Kathy Loev Putnam, Robert McCann, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Sam Jones and Jessica Tawczynski.

 

Zoom Link for Tours:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2662622699?pwd=M09IWHJzOHI0MktSMUV6ODBCUjhidz09 

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present "Crowd Control," a solo exhibition featuring recent work by Heidi Neff on view September 9 through October 2, 2022. An opening reception will be held on Friday, September 9 from 7- 9 PM the gallery’s location in 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY, across the street from the Morgan Ave L train stop.

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"Crowd Control," as defined by the Collins Dictionary is “the management of crowds at sporting events, demonstrations, etc., to prevent trouble.” Neff’s work explores and questions the institutions and methods we use as a society to control ourselves. There is no shortage of ways that society is controlled. Police are called in to contain a group of people calling out systemic racism.  Is it a protest or a riot? Free speech or sedition? For the first time ever, the Supreme Court is taking away established rights as opposed to enshrining new ones. The resulting division in our country is causing major unrest. How will we be surveilled? By drones up above us or by the period trackers on our phones in our pockets? Is it my body my choice when it comes to masking or my body my choice when it comes to my uterus?

 

A 6 ft by 6 ft charcoal drawing of the 5 most conservative Supreme Court justices imposes its glare at you from across the space when you first walk in. Projected drones observe you from the ceiling. On one long wall of the gallery, Neff’s mixed media drawing series Riot Police follows the same police through eight different situations where they may for may not be welcome. "Crowd Control" is a multi-channel video installation of Neff’s frame-by-frame animation in which those mixed media pieces come to life. Other paintings and mixed media pieces are also paired with related animations.

 

"Crowd Control" is Neff’s first foray into multi-channel videos and ambient projections. Her background is as a painter leaning towards highly expressionistic narrative, and most of the animations and videos take directly from hand-drawn or painted pieces. Animation was a natural outgrowth of her inclination to explore multiple ideas and stories at the same time.  She is largely self-taught as an animator and prefers to do as much of the animation as possible on her iPad. 

 

Heidi Neff’s short animated film, “the Long Goodbye” is currently on the film festival circuit and has won several awards.  Heidi earned her MFA from University of Iowa and her BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She makes her home in Maryland with her husband and installation sound designer, Paul Chuffo, and their two children, Max and Maya. This is her third solo exhibition in New York.

 

Image: Heidi Neff, Detail of "Crowd Control (injustices)," multi-channel installation of frame-by-frame digital animation, installation of looping video on eight 32 inch televisions, 2022.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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"Root Systems: Artist Collectives in NYC" examines the enduring legacy of grassroots artist-run collectives through a survey of marketing collateral, posters, fine art and oral and written histories documenting each organization’s unique imprint in the New York alongside contemporary artworks from artist members of these organizations.

 

We invite you to the opening reception of this two-week exhibit, taking place on Friday, July 15th from 6-8 PM. The exhibition highlights the efforts of four NYC-based artist collectives: Amos Eno Gallery, ABC No Rio, Southeast Queens Artist Alliance and Culture Push. Each collective will have a space in the gallery to present their mission, values and artist members' studio practice in a manner that is meaningful to their own imprint on the past and dialogue with the present as we move toward a resilient future for artist communities based in New York City’s five boroughs.

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Visitors to the exhibition will encounter materials from the 1970s until today which offer insights into the rich experiences that artist-run spaces and initiatives have contributed to the wider cultural landscape in New York City.

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Image: Show card from 1975 group exhibition, "Hixon/Presman/Mitchell/Orenstein" at Amos Eno Gallery.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Organizing artist and Amos Eno Gallery member Candace Jensen will be in attendance at the closing reception celebrating this well-received show, 'Recalling the Chimæra'. Light refreshments will be served during this event from 4-6 pm, and guests will be welcome to ask questions about the works on view.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to honor the exhibition, 'Recalling the Chimaera' a show of works on paper, parchment, pellicles and the paper-like, by artists Candace Jensen (VT), Thomas Little (NC) and Coleman Stevenson (OR), three artists whose interdisciplinary practices defy simple categorization, and deify the rhizomatic, the alchemical, and the holographic. 

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The exhibition closes at 6 pm on Sunday, June 5th, 2022.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to celebrate the opening of ReCalling the Chimaera, a show of works on paper, parchment, pellicles and the paper-like, by artists Candace Jensen (VT), Thomas Little (NC) and Coleman Stevenson (OR). three artists whose interdisciplinary practices defy simple categorization, and deify the rhizomatic, the alchemical, and the holographic. 

 

Join the artists at the opening reception of Recalling the Chimæra. 

Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public! Exhibition on view from May 5th - June 5th, 2022.

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Candace Jensen (she/her) is a polymath artist, radical idealist and woods witch living on the unceded lands of the Elnu Abenaki and Pennacook people (Southern Vermont). Jensen earned an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a BFA from Tyler School of Art, both in Philadelphia (traditional lands of the Lenni-Lenape). She has exhibited her work in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Vermont and Antwerp, Belgium, and is currently represented by Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her visual art and writing have appeared in Iterant, ANTE Mag, Studio Visit Magazine, the Komask biannual catalog, and is forthcoming in both ē·rā/tiō modern poetry as well as Cambridge Writers’ Workshop’s Disobedient Futures. Jensen serves as the Book Arts & Letterpress Director at the Ruth Stone House, Art Editor of Iterant Magazine, faculty at Fleisher Art Memorial, and is Cofounder and Programming Director of In Situ Polyculture Commons, an arts residency and regenerative culture catalyst.  

www.candacejensen.com 

@artist.cjensen on IG

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Thomas is an ink and pigment maker who explores mystic and scientific concepts through the lens of ink and our relationship to mark making.  He gathers threads from alchemical imagery, chemical phenomena, mystic observations and incorporates them into a holistic synthesis theory of art-science-magic.  The natural world informs his work with ink in not only the materials used, but the relationships expressed between organism and element.  He makes the pigments he uses and sells from firearms he takes out of circulation and dissolves in acid.  He works with slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) to produce cross species collaborative artifacts.  He has contributed pigments to university material libraries, including the University of Massachusetts and the University of Pennsylvania.  He has curated exhibits on pigment histories and taught numerous workshops in museums, art studios and botanicas. 

https://wildpigmentproject.org/thomas-little @a.rural.pen on IG

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Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems, Light Sleeper (2020), Breakfast (2015), and The Accidental Rarefication #5609 (2012), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide, and a book of essays on creativity accompanying the card game Metaphysik. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications such as Seattle Review, Mid-American Review, Louisiana Literature, tarot.com, and the anthology Motionless from the Iron Bridge. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact. Her Fine Art ork, exhibited in galleries around the Pacific Northwest, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory and cultural studies at a number of different institutions there, most currently for the Literary Arts Delve series, which includes seminars at the Portland Art Museum.

https://www.colemanstevenson.com/ @darkexact on IG 

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Somewhere Around There, a New York debut solo exhibition of work by a Dallas-based artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda from her latest series KuroKuroShiro, “black-black-white” in Japanese. The series title is indicative of her process using Sumi, a traditional East Asian ink, to compose painted worlds in which to be immersed and commune with an inner, quieter spirit.

 

Born and raised in Japan, Sugawara-Beda was steeped in a poetic Japanese aesthetic valuing symbolic interpretation over direct representation. It is from this lyrical, and oftentimes philosophical, Japanese sensibility that Sugawara-Beda creates. Employing the landscape as a conceptual framework, her works negotiate the tension between light and dark, hard and soft, abstraction and figuration. Throughout this exhibition, the artist also considers the relation of past to present, influenced by traditional Japanese scroll paintings that imply time relative to space. And yet, her works transcend place and time, offering no clear suggestion of a narrative or relationship between forms.

 

Somewhere Around There features works in varying scale from small, intimate paintings on handmade gesso-covered panels to hanging scroll works on paper in the Kakejiku tradition. In Sumi ink with its distinctly rich and subtle tones, the monochromatic compositions are minimal in color and confounding in form, encouraging reflection, introspection, and meditation. And as the viewer encounters and navigates the unknown, new possibilities emerge. In the process, the viewer is transported “there,” referenced to in the exhibition’s title, a portal in the material providing access to the spiritual.

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Full Exhibition Price List accessible here.

 

Nishiki Sugawara-Beda website: https://nishikibeda.com/

Nishiki Sugawara-Beda Instagram:  

https://www.instagram.com/nishikisugawarabeda.art/

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Image: KuroKuroShiro VII, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda (2020) 6"×12", Sumi on wood.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to host one final event in conjunction with the exhibition, 'Towards A New Animism,' which includes the work of 6 artists whose practice observes and responds to the vital and infinitely complex relationships between humans and the living planet. The show also explores the possibilities for shifts in cultural focus, especially in the context of our universal crises; climate change, and ecosystem degradation and destabilization.  

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Visitors are welcome to attend this closing reception, with curators/artists present, and to enjoy the final day of the exhibition with light refreshments to be served. Vaccine records will be checked and masks required. We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery for this final event honoring this powerful, timely exhibition.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Image: Joyce Yamada, "Quo Vadis" (Detail)  oil on canvas, 144” x 48” triptych, 2021​

Reception for Sur/Reality, a new exhibit featuring works by artists Joyce Yamada, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, David Olivant and Kahori Kamiya curated by Audra Lambert​

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In-person reception Friday, 10/29 from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

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Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public

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Exhibition on view from Oct 28 - Nov 14, 2021

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Sur/Reality is on view at Amos Eno Gallery from 10/28-11/14/2021. Featuring works by new member artists oyce Yamada, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, David Olivant and Kahori Kamiya , curated by Audra Lambert, the exhibit forms a dialogue with reality and its discontents. The opening reception will take place on Friday, 10/29 from 6-9 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Works on view find a range of expressions as each seeks to analyze how reality can be skewed and re-interpreted utilizing new media, photography, mixed media, painting, collage, sculpture, and installation.

 

Sur/Reality posits how alternative views of reality can enhance our awareness of what is and what could be. In the 1927 Surrealist manifesto, André Breton shares his view that Surrealism seeks to combine the real world and dreams into a ‘super-reality,’ or an absolute reality. Surreal visions of the world integrate impulses from the unconscious into reality, forming a composite worldview reflecting our perception of the world around us.

 

Works on paper by Nishiki Sugawara-Beda harness the subconscious mind and spiritual intuition to produce monochromatic marks, and framing the natural world as both subtle and sublime. Kahori Kamiya’s work embraces textural dissonance commenting on life’s idiosyncrasies presenting works that comment on the distinctive experiences of breastfeeding. David Olivant’s works exert a vision of a world fragmented against itself. His collages are composed of often dissonant elements that present a comprehensive yet contradictory view of how we perceive reality. Paintings by  Joyce Yamada reflect on our tumultuous relationship with the natural environment, mining a deeper understanding, through intuition and instinct, of humanity’s relationship to the surrounding landscape.

 

In a world demanding that we accept often-conflicting realities and assimilate them into a universal worldview, Sur/Reality shifts our focus away from the idea of truth, instead speculating on what it is that we take for granted, and exposing how it can be impermanent, faltering, and unreal.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Image: "Truncated Landscape - RoadtripI, Joyce Yamada (2004) acrylic on canvas 60 x 44"​

Reception in honor of Stadler's life and artistic practice with family present for attendees of Bushwick Open Studios tour 2021​

Friday, September 17th

In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

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Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public

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Exhibition open from Sept 2nd- Oct 3rd, 2021

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Multidisciplinary artist Ulrike Stadler (1942-2019) was celebrated as an accomplished artist and served as a member of Amos Eno Gallery beginning in 1996. This retrospective, on view at Amos Eno Gallery from September 2nd through October 3rd, opens with a reception in memory of the artist on Friday, September 3rd from 5-8pm. Stadler’s retrospective honors her work as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, exhibiting works spanning across the past thirty years of her career.

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Stadler exhibited with Amos Eno for over twenty-five years. Her work was also shown at Wingspread Gallery (Northeast Harbor, Maine) over twenty years. Her legacy encompasses numerous solo and group shows, and her work is held in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

 

Born in Germany in 1942, Stadler received a degree in Art from the Klosterschule in Hamburg, and then studied Philosophy and Medieval Languages at the University of Hamburg. In 1965, Stadler immigrated to New York City, living in the Upper West Side and renting a loft on the Bowery to house her art studio; sculptures representing this period are included in the Retrospective exhibit. Twenty years later, Stadler moved to Maine permanently, where she continued to work throughout her life. 

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Stadler experimented with many techniques and approaches to transform the surface of the canvas. With this innovative mindset, she began using natural materials such as burlap, birch bark, and kozo fibers. She even adapted pigment application by changing the paint itself, from oil-based and encaustic (pigmented beeswax) to egg tempera. Stadler was enthusiastic in finding ways to express compositions, at times moving off the canvas entirely and experimenting with gelatin monotype printmaking. “I always like to learn and teach myself new things,” she once remarked. When Stadler decided to start painting with encaustic, she reflected, “I bought myself a book and a minimal set of supplies and went ahead. It became a terrific journey into totally new territory of texture and color.”  Amos Eno presents this look back across the astounding breadth and scale of works that Stadler produced over her active career full of curiosity and exploration.

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Guests are invited to explore the exhibit and to chat with the artist's family, and Amos Eno gallery director, to learn more about Stadler's work and life.

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Image: Ulrike Stadler, "Glorious Morning"

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Opening Reception with the artist Chris Esposito

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Friday, June 18

In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

Light Refreshments, Artist will be present

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Free and open to the public

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June 17 - July 18, 2021

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Opening Reception Friday, June 18th, from 6-9 pm

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Amos Eno Gallery proudly presents Wall Sandwich, an exhibition of new works by Chris Esposito. An opening reception will take place Friday, June 18th at the gallery from 6-9 PM in our new location in the center hallway at the 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY. The solo show presents new work featuring industrial materials at a range of scales, making visible what is regularly invisible in the surrounding environment.

 

This exhibition shows the artist’s inspiration in dialogue with Gordon Matta-Clark’s practice from the 1970s engaging with New York City’s spaces of decay by highlighting dilapidated buildings and condemned architecture. In these works, Matta-Clark cut into sections of his birth city’s urban landscape to reveal its “anarchitecture.” In Wall Sandwich, Esposito has taken up the mantle of what could be called the "Anti-Matta-Clark" - not because he is operating as the opposite of Matta-Clark, but because his is an intervention that reveals the material composition of these removed sections. Esposito concentrates on the interior and exterior of the walls, the space in between, the endless layers of palimpsest both polished and tarnished. It is a study of the soul of New York City, and as such Esposito takes the matter and material of those Matta-Clark interventional cuts and places this detritus into the context of the white cube contemporary art gallery.

 

Works on view in Wall Sandwich combine layers of found materials from locations across New York City, exerting the poignant presence of lived environments from the city’s neighborhoods and bringing the outside in to confront the viewer. This makes it impossible for the viewer to escape the truth behind Art, Capitalism, Commercialism, and Consumption and the effect it has on this City - and every other city that fails to control the juggernaut of development and capitalist "progress." Where Matta-Clark brought our attention to the cuts, Esposito focuses our gaze on the guts, where can be found the pentimenti of healing and the record of rise and fall surrounding us in the urban landscape.

 

Queens-based artist Chris Esposito is a native New Yorker whose practice employs an anti-aesthetic process of selecting specific found materials, which are then either constructed or deconstructed to create a juxtaposition of culture. Esposito holds an MFA from Queens College and currently teaches Studio Art at both Queens College and SUNY Maritime. in the past he has been known to make a racket with other like minded individuals in basements and lofts that culminated in a recording studio with a subsequent album. He concluded the business of music and keeping a band together wasn’t cutting it and made a career shift to the physical manifestation of paintings and objects. With a hermetic approach to his studio practice he often finds escape from the city on his motorcycle. 

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Image: “Wall Sandwich” (2021) Wood, fresco, oil paint, metal, tar, tar paper, cement blocks and bricks; 43 x 62 x 9.5”

Closing Reception of "Fractured Light" with the artist Irja Boden present 

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Sunday, April 18th from 4 PM

In-person at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street

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Free and open to the public

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Amos Eno Gallery invites guests to the final event celebrating, "Fractured Light": an exhibition of new ceramics by Hudson Valley-based artist Irja Bodén. This is Irja's first solo exhibit with the gallery, and the show's title is in reference to Leonard Cohen's song Anthem, which declares, “There is a crack . . . in everything; that's how the light gets in.” These works emphasize a particular dimension of ceramics: as clay hardens, it gets fragile. Clay in that way echoes our society; as it hardens, it gets fragile and brittle, but it is within its cracks where a hopeful light may shine through.

Bodén uses stacking as a method of spatial organizing The stacks run between three to forty-five inches, richly textured, wheel-thrown and hand-built. Many of the works contain unique loose objects precariously perched upon larger vessels to express that within balance inheres precariousness. Some are layered richly with glaze, others are made in alternative firings of raku. Bodén's work alludes to the natural world and domestic interiors. Ceramics are an unpredictable material and it is largely out of one's hands how it will appear after firing. But it is the unpredictability which keeps her interested in the material, as it echoes life and because clay, like our bodies, retains memories of how it has been treated. It is not unusual for her to subject her works to multiple firings, since she enjoys experimentation with surface techniques.

Irja Bodén (b. Sweden) holds a BFA from SUNY Potsdam, magna cum laude, in visual arts and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Recipient of several grants, awards, and residencies, her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Bodén was awarded an 2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She was an artist in The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020; Here Together!, NY. Bodén is currently based in New York's Hudson Valley.

Exhibition Tour and Presentation for solo show by artist Jose-Ricardo Presman

Introduction by Audra Lambert

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February 19, 2021 at 5:30 PM EST

Attend via this Zoom link:  https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72601204952?pwd=SU1XanErRXpoV08yZllzTVFoZVlqZz09

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Free and open to the public

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Amos Eno Gallery presents The Illusion that Light Travels, an exhibition of new works by long-time gallery member and co-founder José-Ricardo Presman. A virtual exhibition tour and presentation will take place from 5:30 PM on Friday, Feb 19th via Zoom (link here) followed by an opening reception from 6-9 PM at the gallery's location at 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY. The artist’s presentation will cover themes such as how the creative mind coordinates with the rational mind in an artistic context.

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José-Ricardo Presman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has exhibited in numerous solo shows at Amos Eno Gallery in New York and in various group shows throughout the US and Canada.

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Virtual Dialogue: 12:30 PM EST via Zoom

Friday, January 15, 2021 (exhibition closing weekend)

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Join the artists of "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude" for this exclusive artist dialogue in conversation with the curator Audra Lambert. The conversation will center on the practices of individual artists whose work is included in the exhibition, including details on their artistic process and themes that their work encompasses. 

Free and open to the public. 

 

Zoom Link for Virtual Discussion: 

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73335239128?pwd=WUhkMVRNS21idEE1NkMveVhoM2tIZz09

Virtual Reception: 5:30 - 6:15 PM EST

In-Person Reception: 6:30 - 9 PM EST

Friday, December 18, 2020

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Part of Virtual Bushwick Open Studios 2020

 

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present this group show of small works featuring artists Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Irja Boden, Chris Esposito, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Sam Jones, Kahori Kamiya, Charleen Kavleski, Robert McCann, David Olivant, Mimi Oritsky, Kathy Loev Putnam, Philip Swan, Jessica Tawczynski and Aaron Wilder. 

 

Zoom Link for Virtual Reception: 

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2662622699?pwd=M09IWHJzOHI0MktSMUV6ODBCUjhidz09 

"Root Systems: Artist Collectives in NYC" examines the enduring legacy of grassroots artist-run collectives through a survey of marketing collateral, posters, fine art and oral and written histories.

 

Amos Eno Gallery and SEQAA invite you to the closing reception of this compelling exhibition, featuring SEQAA, ABC No Rio, Culture Push and Amos Eno Gallery, on Saturday, July 30th from 3-6 PM. Guests can try out book-binding in an activity led by SEQAA artists and light refreshments will be served.

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The exhibition highlights the efforts of four NYC-based artist collectives: Amos Eno Gallery, ABC No Rio, Southeast Queens Artist Alliance and Culture Push. Each collective will have a space in the gallery to present their mission, values and artist members' studio practice in a manner that is meaningful to their own imprint on the past and dialogue with the present as we move toward a resilient future for artist communities based in New York City’s five boroughs.

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Visitors to the exhibition will encounter materials from the 1970s until today which offer insights into the rich experiences that artist-run spaces and initiatives have contributed to the wider cultural landscape in New York City.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Leave A Mark Or A Dime, an exhibition of recent
paintings by Robert A. McCann. We invite visitors to a closing reception, which will be held on Sunday, July 10 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. The artist will be present to discuss his works and the exhibition in general.

In his latest body of work, McCann continues to explore the shaky terrain of modern life as
interpreted by the untrustworthy narrator self. Inventive visual storytelling in the paintings
dissolves the distinctions between memories, current events, history, and dreams.

 

Developed over the last two years, McCann found inspiration for this series in becoming a first-time father at middle age, at the start of a worldwide pandemic. The unreal, constructed space of a painting is a good analog to a world where communication is fragmented and disinformation ascendant. The show’s title nods to this ambiguity of language distressed over time. The unresolved metaphors in this group of paintings allude to big themes of desire and loss, love and hope, progress, and society.

McCann sees himself as “a more-is-more” kind of painter. He approaches painting as a
fundamentally fictional space, where different kinds of idea can be approached from odd
angles. Sometimes he populates the work with pop culture figures of major and minor fame.

 

These figures will resonate in some way as personal mythologies that stand in for an
experience. They also serve as shorthand for a particular sort of character the viewer may
recognize. Further, the internet and social media can be seen to have flattened the barrier between celebrities and acquaintances, or between personal space and the news. The off kilter feeling of public and private being drunk from the same firehose has been another theme in McCann’s recent work.

The paintings that make up Leave A Mark Or A Dime are oil paint on canvas, linen, or panel.
The surfaces meander from thick to thin, rough to smooth, and careful to chaotic. The
multiplicity of painting—the impurity of it—is a guiding force. To physically make a picture that feels believable is a cathartic studio ritual.

Robert A. McCann is based in East Lansing, Michigan, where he teaches Painting and
Foundations at Michigan State University. His recent venues of solo exhibition include the
University of Arkansas Galleries in Little Rock, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the South Bend Museum of Art, and Artlink Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His artwork can also be seen in the Chicagoland area this fall in the three-person exhibition Layered Meanings at the Evanston Art Center.

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Image: "Winter Spell" Robert A. McCann

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Join artists of ‘Recalling the Chimæra’ for a virtual show visit and full moon ritual.

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Highlights of the exhibition will be visited on camera in-gallery and the artists, Candace Jensen, Thomas Little & Coleman Stevenson will be available for comment and questions.

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To honor and observe the event of the Full Moon in Scorpio the morning of Monday, May 16th 2022, the artists will conduct a lunar ritual as an activation of the exhibition. This is also intended to make the show and artists accessible to those unable to travel into New York at this time.

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Please register here, attendance limited to 95. Zoom link will be available through the eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/recalling-the-chimaera-the-ides-of-may-full-moon-ritual-tickets-273642952437

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to host the closing event "Conversation and Q & A" with a group of participating artists in the exhibition Sign of Frankenstein.  Curated by Amos Eno member artist Robert A. McCann, Sign of Frankenstein brings together seven different New York City-based artists connected by painterly combination and collection.

Guest artists on view in Sign of Frankenstein include Noga Cohen, Adi Blaustein Rejto, Nicole Parcher, Jesse McCloskey, Tine Lundsfryd, KellyAnne Hanrahan, and Charity Baker.  This event will be co-moderated/ organized by participating artists Noga and Adi. 

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Curator Robert McCann has exhibited his work around the USA for over 20 years and he became an old dad for the first time in 2020.  He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Design at Michigan State University, where he teaches in Painting and Foundations.

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Image: detail from "You Must Not Be Seen" by Adi Blaustein Rejto

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Somewhere Around There, a New York debut solo exhibition of work by a Dallas-based artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda from her latest series KuroKuroShiro, “black-black-white” in Japanese. The series title is indicative of her process using Sumi, a traditional East Asian ink, to compose painted worlds in which to be immersed and commune with an inner, quieter spirit.

 

Born and raised in Japan, Sugawara-Beda was steeped in a poetic Japanese aesthetic valuing symbolic interpretation over direct representation. It is from this lyrical, and oftentimes philosophical, Japanese sensibility that Sugawara-Beda creates. Employing the landscape as a conceptual framework, her works negotiate the tension between light and dark, hard and soft, abstraction and figuration. Throughout this exhibition, the artist also considers the relation of past to present, influenced by traditional Japanese scroll paintings that imply time relative to space. And yet, her works transcend place and time, offering no clear suggestion of a narrative or relationship between forms.

 

Somewhere Around There features works in varying scale from small, intimate paintings on handmade gesso-covered panels to hanging scroll works on paper in the Kakejiku tradition. In Sumi ink with its distinctly rich and subtle tones, the monochromatic compositions are minimal in color and confounding in form, encouraging reflection, introspection, and meditation. And as the viewer encounters and navigates the unknown, new possibilities emerge. In the process, the viewer is transported “there,” referenced to in the exhibition’s title, a portal in the material providing access to the spiritual.

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Full Exhibition Price List accessible here.

 

Nishiki Sugawara-Beda website: https://nishikibeda.com/

Nishiki Sugawara-Beda Instagram:  

https://www.instagram.com/nishikisugawarabeda.art/

 

Nishiki Sugawara-Beda is a Japanese-American visual artist based in painting and installation. She draws upon her Japanese heritage to explore themes related to culture, language, and spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism. Connecting across space and time, she experiments in ancient Japanese materials and techniques including Sumi ink, Kakejiku landscapes, and rice paper, to merge them with abstract and expressive forms familiar to the modern Western aesthetic. Sugawara-Beda has exhibited her work in venues including the Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), Morris Graves Museum of Art (CA), Dennos Museum (MI) and Amos Eno Gallery (NY). Publications include New American Paintings, Expose Art Magazine, AEQAI, Athenaeum Review and the London Post. Awards including a Seed Grant, Diversity Fellow Program, International Enhancement Grant, Idaho Arts Fellowship, Sam Taylor Fellowship, and Tusen Takk Foundation residency have supported her artistic research. In addition to national conferences, including the College Art Association, Sugawara-Beda also gives keynote speeches and workshops to cultural organizations including Pilipino American Unity for Progress, Inc., OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Business Council for the Arts, Dallas. See You There, a full-color art book surveying her work from 2012 to 2020, is published by Execute Magazine in 2021.

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Image: KuroKuroShiro C, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda. Sumi on wood.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Join co-curators Candace Jensen and Joyce Yamada with many of the TANA exhibiting artists, as they welcome filmmaker, Melissa Troutman to a conversation exploring paradigm shifts and cultural transformations. The salon will be an informal opportunity for the artists and public to discuss inspiring ideas about humankind’s relationships to Nature, the ecosystems we belong to and depend upon, and to each other. 

 

*It is highly recommended to take advantage of Amos Eno Gallery’s exclusive FREE virtual film-screening of ‘Invisible Hand’ prior to, or immediately after the salon! A limited number of tickets will be available in-gallery only (limited to 100) for the virtual screening, which can be done from any personal web-browsing video/audio device, from Thursday, January 6th through Sunday, January 30th. The film can also be rented on-demand for as little as $1 at https://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/

 

Invisible Hand is an award-winning, “paradigm shifting” documentary from Public Herald Studios about the Rights of Nature and community rights, narrated and executively produced by actor and advocate Mark Ruffalo.  

 

"The system is rigged to destroy Nature. But people are defying it and shaping another world.” - Director Melissa Troutman

 

Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Image courtesy Grant Johnson, "Forest Bathing"

Reception for Hyper/Reality, featuring artists Ligia Bouton, Grant Johnson and Aaron Wilder, curated by Audra Lambert​

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In-person reception Friday, 10/8 from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

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Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public

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Exhibition on view from Oct 7 - Oct 24, 2021

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Hyper/Reality is on view at Amos Eno Gallery from 10/7-24, 2021. Featuring works by new member artists Ligia Bouton, Grant Johnson and Aaron Wilder, curated by Audra Lambert, the exhibit forms a dialogue with reality and its discontents. The opening reception will take place on Friday, 10/8 from 6-9 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Works on view find a range of expressions as each seeks to analyze how reality can be skewed and re-interpreted utilizing new media, photography, mixed media, painting, collage, sculpture, and installation.

 

Baudrillard’s 20th century art criticism introduced the concept of the hyperreal, which marks the ascendance of the Simulacrum over lived reality. Hyper/Reality confronts the many ways in which the hyperreal has overtaken the impact reality for civilization in the present day, delving into digital and wireless technologies that have pervaded our view of what is, and is not, real. Works on view in Hyper/Reality present altered visions of the ‘real,’ as defined by digital, natural and social phenomenon defining our everyday lives. Sculpture by Ligia Bouton embraces industrial materials examining legends of the Old West, viewing these myths as appropriated narratives with a bracing humor.  Works by Grant Johnson layer artificial intelligence with manually captured imagery, questioning how we experience and analyze our surroundings and what information may be left out of the conclusions we surmise. New media, photography and installation work by Aaron Wilder asks us to reconsider narratives and how they become co-opted, censored or re-interpreted in ways that may escape our notice, and how these layered realities impact spaces concomitantly environmental and deeply personal.

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Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.

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Image: detail from Aaron Wilder's Instax installation, part of his "Details" series.​

Opening Reception in honor of Stadler's life and artistic practice with family present​

Friday, September 3rd

In-person reception from 5-8 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

Light Refreshments, Artist's daughters will be present

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Free and open to the public

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Exhibition open from Sept 2nd- Oct 3rd, 2021

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Multidisciplinary artist Ulrike Stadler (1942-2019) was celebrated as an accomplished artist and served as a member of Amos Eno Gallery beginning in 1996. This retrospective, on view at Amos Eno Gallery from September 2nd through October 3rd, opens with a reception in memory of the artist on Friday, September 3rd from 5-8pm. Stadler’s retrospective honors her work as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, exhibiting works spanning across the past thirty years of her career.

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Stadler exhibited with Amos Eno for over twenty-five years. Her work was also shown at Wingspread Gallery (Northeast Harbor, Maine) over twenty years. Her legacy encompasses numerous solo and group shows, and her work is held in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

 

Born in Germany in 1942, Stadler received a degree in Art from the Klosterschule in Hamburg, and then studied Philosophy and Medieval Languages at the University of Hamburg. In 1965, Stadler immigrated to New York City, living in the Upper West Side and renting a loft on the Bowery to house her art studio; sculptures representing this period are included in the Retrospective exhibit. Twenty years later, Stadler moved to Maine permanently, where she continued to work throughout her life. 

 

In 2001, Stadler opened the eponymous Stadler Gallery for Contemporary Art in Maine’s Carrabassett Valley, where she made a commitment to providing artists in all stages of their career with dedicated exhibitions. She became an anchor that helped revitalize the town’s arts community. It was in this region of northern Maine where she completed the bulk of the collection currently on display at Amos Eno. 

 

Stadler experimented with many techniques and approaches to transform the surface of the canvas. With this innovative mindset, she began using natural materials such as burlap, birch bark, and kozo fibers. She even adapted pigment application by changing the paint itself, from oil-based and encaustic (pigmented beeswax) to egg tempera. Stadler was enthusiastic in finding ways to express compositions, at times moving off the canvas entirely and experimenting with gelatin monotype printmaking. “I always like to learn and teach myself new things,” she once remarked. When Stadler decided to start painting with encaustic, she reflected, “I bought myself a book and a minimal set of supplies and went ahead. It became a terrific journey into totally new territory of texture and color.” 

 

“Her art was often an experiment,” explains Pelham Art Center-exhibiting Melita Westerlund, internationally known sculptor, fiber artist, and decades-long friend and neighbor of Stadler’s in Bar Harbor, Maine. It is in this sense of forging new horizons that Amos Eno presents this look back across the astounding breadth and scale of works that Stadler produced over her active career full of curiosity and exploration.

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Image capturing the artist when she was at work in her studio in Maine. 

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Opening Reception with the artist Tulu Bayar and special guest, Pianist Sezi Seskir

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Friday, May 21

In-person reception from 6-8 pm at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street 

Join us in our new space in the building's center hallway!

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Free and open to the public

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May 20- June 13, 2021

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Opening Reception Friday, May 21st, from 6-8 pm

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Amos Eno Gallery proudly presents “Traces,” an exhibition of mixed-media installation by Tulu Bayar. Join us Friday, May 21 from 6-8 pm for the opening reception of Bayar’s most recent installation, which draws upon her decade-long exploration of drawing with photographic film, and utilizes meditative repetition to communicate the idea of oneness: all binary concepts share and are connected to one source. In contrast to an examination of the physical, Bayar’s work focuses on the spiritual essence of wholeness and mysticism that are deeply rooted in Rumi’s teachings. The artist will be creating ephemeral drawings to gift visitors to her opening in tandem with pianist's Sezi Seskir, who will be performing a work by Philip Glass, "Two Pages" (1968). Cage's performance instructions for this work are sparse, allowing the performer to repeat each pattern cell as many times as they wish, meaning each performance is slightly different, thereby allowing different patterns to emerge from the repeated pattern cells.

 

Bayar's exhibition “Traces” is composed of several mixed-media works meticulously created from photographic film, ink and resin. Each exhibits an exploration in calligraphic abstraction, performance, drawing, and ebru (Turkish marbling art). Bayar’s meditative compositions of photographic film respond to the traditional Islamic understanding of the spirituality of text, and to Islamic manuscript painting. Repetitious play with material and form lends a performative element to the works, while their intimate size simulates an intensely personal interaction. Regardless of your familiarity with this language, the beauty of the symbolic expression comes to the fore. 

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Bayar’s practice is informed by her experiences and immediate context as an immigrant artist, and her work is deeply influenced by both her native and adopted cultures. Exoticism, otherness, hybridism, homogeneity, pluralism and containment are some of the concepts that she has been exploring throughout her practice. Bayar is interested in engaging with artistic strategies that blur the boundaries between strict categorizations and binary situations. 

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In “Traces”, Bayar draws with photographic films, as opposed to exposing, processing and enlarging the materials in the darkroom. She sees this work as a journey on a contained surface. She explains, “Drawing allows one to go back and reflect. The gestural record on the surface stages a moment of existence that is like no other moment. By containing that peculiar moment, I feel like I am able to memorialize the process."

 

The work draws an analogy between how we experience unconscious emotions through repetition and the accumulation of marks, and between the intonation, hesitation, and inflection of sound (which occur independent of sight, then is generated by the mind and mediated by perception). This way of working with unexposed photographic films gives Bayar a privileged relationship to the non-visible, as the work embodies and exposes the thinking process. “I usually start each work with a social issue in mind," reflects Bayar. "Gradually, the pragmatic develops and disintegrates, leaving behind a sense of the assembled material that transcends the literal. This opens a path to connect with the viewers on an emotional level, and it is also the point at which I assume the work is finalized”, she explains. 

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For Bayar's bio, please see "On View".

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Seskir received her first degree in piano in her native, Ankara, Turkey. She went on with her studies in Lübeck Musikhochschule and then completed a D.M.A. degree with Malcolm Bilson in Cornell University. She concertized widely in Europe and the US. Seskir has given guest lectures at schools such as UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, Williams College and at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague among others. Her articles appeared in collected editions titled “Schumann Interpretieren” and “Schumann Studien 11” respectively by Studio Punkt Verlag. She is currently an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University and is an editor of Schumann's keyboard works for the Schumann complete edition for Schott and Bärenreiter publishing houses. Her CD of three Beethoven violin sonatas with Lucy Russell recorded on period instruments appeared in 2020 by the Acis label and garnered enthusiastic acclaim.

Opening Reception with the artist Irja Boden present 

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Sunday, March 19th from 6 PM

In-person at Amos Eno Gallery

56 Bogart Street

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Free and open to the public

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Amos Eno Gallery invites guests to the opening reception, "Fractured Light": an exhibition of new ceramics by Irja Bodén. This is Irja's first solo exhibit with the gallery, and the show's title is in reference to Leonard Cohen's song Anthem, which declares, “There is a crack . . . in everything; that's how the light gets in.” These works emphasize a particular dimension of ceramics: as clay hardens, it gets fragile. Clay in that way echoes our society; as it hardens, it gets fragile and brittle, but it is within its cracks where a hopeful light may shine through.

Bodén uses stacking as a method of spatial organizing The stacks run between three to forty-five inches, richly textured, wheel-thrown and hand-built. Many of the works contain unique loose objects precariously perched upon larger vessels to express that within balance inheres precariousness. Some are layered richly with glaze, others are made in alternative firings of raku. Bodén's work alludes to the natural world and domestic interiors. Ceramics are an unpredictable material and it is largely out of one's hands how it will appear after firing. But it is the unpredictability which keeps her interested in the material, as it echoes life and because clay, like our bodies, retains memories of how it has been treated. It is not unusual for her to subject her works to multiple firings, since she enjoys experimentation with surface techniques.

Irja Bodén (b. Sweden) holds a BFA from SUNY Potsdam, magna cum laude, in visual arts and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Recipient of several grants, awards, and residencies, her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Bodén was awarded an 2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She was an artist in The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020; Here Together!, NY. Bodén is currently based in New York's Hudson Valley.

Discussion with artist Heidi Neff and Guests Elifnaz Caliskan, MPP; Stephanie Hallock, PhD; and Regina Roof Ray, MEd

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Moderated by Audra Lambert, Director of Amos Eno Gallery

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February 11, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST

Attend via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81195437546

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Free and open to the public

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What has happened here? Why is the country so divided, some say on the brink of Civil War? After viewing Heidi Neff’s animated short the Long Goodbye, a personal documentary of the time between Election Day 2020 and Inauguration Day 2021, the artist will discuss themes present in the project with panelists Elifnaz Caliskan, MPP, political scientist and public policy expert; Stephanie Hallock, PhD, Professor of Political Science and Regina Roof Ray, MEd, Associate Professor of Psychology. Themes for the discussion include political divisiveness, how we are living through a party realignment—a rare occurrence in American History which is always tumultuous—and how phenomena such cognitive inflexibility, confirmation bias, and misinformation effects have created a situation where people are unable to come together, even to agree on facts.

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Heidi Neff is Professor of Art + Design at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland, where she was granted a sabbatical to work on animations for the Spring semester of 2020. Despite headaches of online teaching, small children, and a love/hate relationship with technology, Heidi makes apocalyptic animations with a hand-drawn/hand-painted aesthetic. Heidi earned her MFA from University of Iowa and her BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She makes her home in Maryland with her husband, Paul Chuffo, and their two children, Max and Maya.

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Elifnaz Caliskan, MPP, is a Senior Project Manager at an international development firm focused on providing expertise in conflict and post-conflict countries. She holds particular interest in the role of diplomacy, negotiations, and human capital investment in conflict prevention and transformation. A native of Turkey, she has lived across 8 cities around the globe across 3 continents. She is currently baesd in Washington DC, and is a proud alumna of University of Maryland (MPP and BA). Caliskan sees herself a storyteller and aspires to help marginalized communities to tell their stories.

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Professor Regina Roof Ray is Associate Professor of Psychology at Harford Community College in Bel Air, MD.  Roof-Ray brings her expertise in social psychology and will explore how phenomena such as personality, cognitive inflexibility, confirmation bias, and misinformation effect. She has presented at national conferences including the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology and was a founding organizer of the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Psychology Conference.  She holds a BA in behavioral science from Messiah College, studied at Temple University and Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya and holds an MEd in counseling from Millersville University.

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Dr. Stephanie Hallock PhD, is a professor of Political Science at Harford Community College in Bel Air, MD. Dr. Hallock brings 20 plus years’ experience teaching American Government at the college level. 

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 Virtual Tour:

•  Tour Begins 2:00 PM EST 

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Part of Virtual Bushwick Open Studios 2020

 

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to offer a virtual tour of this small works group show, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude." Referencing "The Inward Morning" by Henry David Thoreau, the exhibit contemplates on the transcendence of silence and stillness as a catalyst for hope. 

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Artists will discuss their work on view during this virtual tour with curator Audra Lambert: attending artists include Philip Swan, Aaron Wilder and David Olivant.

 

Zoom Link for Tour:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2662622699?pwd=M09IWHJzOHI0MktSMUV6ODBCUjhidz09