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Zipora Fried, Armchair, 2010; Leather chair, baseball bats, paint; 48 x 36 x 60 in.
Artis Presents Armory Arts Week Events, March 6-10, 2012
Zipora Fried, Armchair, 2010; Leather chair, baseball bats, paint; 48 x 36 x 60 in.
Artis Presents Armory Arts Week Events
March 6-10, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Artis Presents Israeli Art Today
A Lecture and Panel on Israeli art
6:00pm
Sotheby's
1334 York Avenue at 71st Street
New York, NY
RSVP: persis[a]artiscontemporary.org
Join Artis for an historical overview of Israeli art by Chen Tamir (Independent Curator; Program & Operations Manager, Artis), followed by a panel discussion on collecting Israeli art, with Jennifer Roth (Senior Vice President and Head of Department of Fine Arts, Sotheby's); Rivka Saker (Managing Director, Sotheby's Israel; Founder/Board Chair, Artis); and Nancy Berman (Founding Director Emeritus, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles; President of the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation). Moderated by Art Critic and Curator Steven Henry Madoff.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Artis Presents a Studio Visit with Artist Zipora Fried
6-8pm
Address TBA with RSVP
RSVP required: chen [a] artiscontemporary.org
As part of Armory Week's SoHo night, Artis invites you to an intimate studio visit with artist Zipora Fried. Gallerist Candice Madey, of On Stellar Rays, will speak about Fried's work.
Zipora Fried (b. 1964, Haifa, Israel) current lives and works in New York. Her drawings, sculptures and photographic practice are an exercise in dichotomy– silent confrontation, restrained rawness and persistent fragility. She takes elements of biography, familiar or ordinary objects, and mimics and dislocates the everyday. Recent solo exhibitions include Salon Noir (2011) and Trust me. Be Careful. (2009) at On Stellar Rays, New York; MACHISMO at PS Project Space, Amsterdam (2008) and Works and Days at AR Contemporary, Milan (2006). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions internationally, includingTotal Recall organized by Public Art Fund, New York (2010); Zipora Fried & Margarete Jakschik & Sam Windett at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2010); Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York (2010); Minus Space at MoMA PS1, New York (2008) and Drawing a Line in the Sand at Peter Blum Gallery, New York (2012). Fried is also the recipient of numerous awards for her experimental films, which have been featured in festivals worldwide. She is represented by On Stellar Rays, New York.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Artis Presents a Studio Visit with Artist Nir Hod
12-2pm
Address TBA with RSVP
RSVP required: chen [a] artiscontemporary.org
As part of Armory Week's Chelsea day, Artis presents a special studio visit with Nir Hod and a preview of his new works that will be on display at Paul Kasmin Gallery starting March 28. His latest series of paintings, "Mother," draw from both historical imagery and contemporary fashion, exploring mechanisms of memory and desire.
In his videos, sculptures and realist paintings, Nir Hod creates luxuriously stylized worlds of beauty, loneliness, glamour and death. As Richard Vine wrote in the catalogue for Hod's survey exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "From the beginning of his career, Nir Hod has opposed the ideology that labels sumptuousness as an aesthetic sin. His work openly substitutes the pleasure principle and a fluid multiplicity of selves for the old notions of high seriousness and personal authenticity." In his recent series, Genius, paintings and sculptures, Hod depicts aristocratic young men and women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes. Philosopher Roy Brand describes them as "...little demons without disguises. But they are also yearning, beautiful, and charming, and their narcissism is more a sign of internal happiness than of vanity." Like sculptures in a wax museum that aim to freeze time, the paintings explore art's power to capture life while simultaneously elevating it towards an unattainable ideal.
Nir Hod (b. 1970 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in New York) received a B.F.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and participated in an exchange program at Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He has had recent solo shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Alon Segev Gallery in Tel Aviv, Davide Gallo Gallery in Berlin, and Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. He has participated in the group exhibitions Wall Rockets at the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY; Art of State: Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam; and Eventually We'll Die at the Herzliya Museum, Israel. In 2012, he will have his second solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
March 6-10, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Artis Presents Israeli Art Today
A Lecture and Panel on Israeli art
6:00pm
Sotheby's
1334 York Avenue at 71st Street
New York, NY
RSVP: persis[a]artiscontemporary.org
Join Artis for an historical overview of Israeli art by Chen Tamir (Independent Curator; Program & Operations Manager, Artis), followed by a panel discussion on collecting Israeli art, with Jennifer Roth (Senior Vice President and Head of Department of Fine Arts, Sotheby's); Rivka Saker (Managing Director, Sotheby's Israel; Founder/Board Chair, Artis); and Nancy Berman (Founding Director Emeritus, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles; President of the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation). Moderated by Art Critic and Curator Steven Henry Madoff.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Artis Presents a Studio Visit with Artist Zipora Fried
6-8pm
Address TBA with RSVP
RSVP required: chen [a] artiscontemporary.org
As part of Armory Week's SoHo night, Artis invites you to an intimate studio visit with artist Zipora Fried. Gallerist Candice Madey, of On Stellar Rays, will speak about Fried's work.
Zipora Fried (b. 1964, Haifa, Israel) current lives and works in New York. Her drawings, sculptures and photographic practice are an exercise in dichotomy– silent confrontation, restrained rawness and persistent fragility. She takes elements of biography, familiar or ordinary objects, and mimics and dislocates the everyday. Recent solo exhibitions include Salon Noir (2011) and Trust me. Be Careful. (2009) at On Stellar Rays, New York; MACHISMO at PS Project Space, Amsterdam (2008) and Works and Days at AR Contemporary, Milan (2006). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions internationally, includingTotal Recall organized by Public Art Fund, New York (2010); Zipora Fried & Margarete Jakschik & Sam Windett at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2010); Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York (2010); Minus Space at MoMA PS1, New York (2008) and Drawing a Line in the Sand at Peter Blum Gallery, New York (2012). Fried is also the recipient of numerous awards for her experimental films, which have been featured in festivals worldwide. She is represented by On Stellar Rays, New York.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Artis Presents a Studio Visit with Artist Nir Hod
12-2pm
Address TBA with RSVP
RSVP required: chen [a] artiscontemporary.org
As part of Armory Week's Chelsea day, Artis presents a special studio visit with Nir Hod and a preview of his new works that will be on display at Paul Kasmin Gallery starting March 28. His latest series of paintings, "Mother," draw from both historical imagery and contemporary fashion, exploring mechanisms of memory and desire.
In his videos, sculptures and realist paintings, Nir Hod creates luxuriously stylized worlds of beauty, loneliness, glamour and death. As Richard Vine wrote in the catalogue for Hod's survey exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "From the beginning of his career, Nir Hod has opposed the ideology that labels sumptuousness as an aesthetic sin. His work openly substitutes the pleasure principle and a fluid multiplicity of selves for the old notions of high seriousness and personal authenticity." In his recent series, Genius, paintings and sculptures, Hod depicts aristocratic young men and women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes. Philosopher Roy Brand describes them as "...little demons without disguises. But they are also yearning, beautiful, and charming, and their narcissism is more a sign of internal happiness than of vanity." Like sculptures in a wax museum that aim to freeze time, the paintings explore art's power to capture life while simultaneously elevating it towards an unattainable ideal.
Nir Hod (b. 1970 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in New York) received a B.F.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and participated in an exchange program at Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He has had recent solo shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Alon Segev Gallery in Tel Aviv, Davide Gallo Gallery in Berlin, and Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. He has participated in the group exhibitions Wall Rockets at the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY; Art of State: Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam; and Eventually We'll Die at the Herzliya Museum, Israel. In 2012, he will have his second solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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