Soho Highlights

Drawing a Line in the Sand at Peter Blum Gallery SoHo

Zipora Fried, January 2011 Like Nothing Else, 2011, graphite on mylar54 x 93 inches, frame:58 1/4 x 97 inches

Robert Ryman, Grey Drawing #8, 1962, charcoal, graphite pencil,pastel on cream paper, 10 x 10 inches

this beauty was one of my favs. that long 3 column grid in the upper left kills me.

Sol LeWitt, Horizontal Lines Not Straight Not Touching, 1990 gouache and graphite on paper, 73/4 x 11 1/4 inches

N. Dash, December II 2010, 2010, graphite, paper, 15 x 20 inches

Simon Frost Untitled #151, 2008, silverpoint and casein on paper, 23x 27 3/4 inches

Simon Frost, Untitled #156, 2011, graphite on paper, 53/4 x 5 inches

In Case It Rains In Heaven, Photographs by Kurt Tong at Jen Bekman Gallery

Dentures, Toothpaste and Toothbrush, Digital C-Print

Wheelchair , Digital C-Print

Swimming Trunks, Goggles and Snorkel , Digital C-Print

Electric Fan, Digital C-Print

HELLO? I FORGOT MY MANTRA at Clifton Benevento

Paul Cowan, Untitled, 2012, Canvas, fishing lures, 60 x 48 inches

Paul Cowan, Untitled, 2012, Fabric, fishing lures, 41 x 33 inches

Aleksandra Domanovic, Anhedonia, 2007, 90 video, color, sound, Edition of 5

OMG, this video had me cracking up. thank you super nice gallery person for explaining the video to me! even before i got an explanation, i loved it. from the press release:

In Anhedonia, Aleksandra Domanović superimposes the audio track of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977) onto stock footage from the Getty Image archive. Replacing the film’s visuals can be conceptually understood as a reversal of Allen’s debut, What’s Up Tiger Lily?(1966), a comedy where Allen added new dialogue instead of translating the material co-opted from a 1965 Senkichi Taniguchi feature. On a semantic level, the fixed score in Annie Hall – a film with little incidental music – is reordered. Using the original soundtrack of the film as script or guide, Domanović exchanges one layer of visual information for another to produce an original object that oscillates between the literal, the allegorical and the obtuse. Enabled on a material level by the development of the Getty archive -70 million still images and 30,000 hours of stock footage and growing – Domanović points to the dulling relationship between pleasure and an over-abundance of visual information. Anhedonia, a psychological condition marked by an inability to experience satisfaction from normally pleasurable actions like eating, exercise and sex, compounds the exhibition title in their complicity with the relations of visual excess and pleasure; both are also derived from Annie Hall.

Jan Groover, Formalism is Everything at Janet Borden Inc.

the gallery's website doesn't have more info on each piece, but FYI these are photos. this show was just beautiful. i was drawn more to the ultra closeup & cropped images. she had some damn fine tiny photos about 2.5" X 2.5" towards the back left of the gallery that really drew me in.