Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Business of Aura is an exhibition hosted in two locations, Elga Wimmer Gallery and Broadway Gallery, curated by Kelsey Harrington. It includes painting, drawing, photography, sculptural prototypes, and installation. The show examines the potential of studio processes to produce aura. In particular it considers sensual, conceptual, and psychological interpretations of aura and highlights the role aura plays in the buying and selling of art.
The Business of
Aura
Aura
Elga Wimmer Gallery
526 West 26th St NYC #310
August 12 – September 18
526 West 26th St NYC #310
August 12 – September 18
Closing reception Friday September 10 6-8pm
Summer hours Tuesday-Friday 12-6pm
Hours after Labor Day Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm
Broadway Gallery
473 Broadway 7th Fl, NYC
August 19 – September 10
August 19 – September 10
Reception Thursday August 19 6-8pm
Hours Monday – Saturday 10-6pm
The Business of Aura is an exhibition hosted in two locations, Elga Wimmer Gallery and Broadway Gallery, curated by Kelsey Harrington. It includes painting, drawing, photography, sculptural prototypes, and installation. The show examines the potential of studio processes to produce aura.
Artists & architecturally trained designers at Elga Wimmer Gallery include - Helen Brough, Elizabeth Cooper, Cmmnwlth (Zoe Coombes & David Boira)-in collaboration with Timothy Saccenti, Kelsey Harrington, Lauren Luloff, Jon Meyer, Steve Orlando, Yuka Otani, Devin Powers, Matthew Schreiber, Snarkitecture, SOFTlab, Studio Mode, and yo_cy (Christine Yogiaman & Ken Tracy).
Artists at Broadway Gallery include – Myles Bennett, Jaqueline Cedar, Laura Greengold, Kelsey Harrington, Jeff Hutchison, Jeanne Jo, Amanda Lechner, Lauren Luloff, Jon Meyer, Jan Mollet, Yuka Otani, Devin Powers, Ryan Russo, Matthew Schreiber, Rebecca Sherman, Emet Sosna, and Christopher Ulivo.
The concept of aura has myriad associations in art and design history, from the Frankfurt School to New Age Spiritualism. All too often, however, the term is read in its narrowest sense – the aura that Walter Benjamin mourned the loss of in his famous essay Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, now 75 years old. Rather than taking up the terms of that debate, asking whether or not art today has lost its aura, this collection aims to reclaim a broader understanding of aura in contemporary practices today.
In popular culture, aura is generally defined as a symptom of altered visual or sensual states. Reflecting this, the current exhibition includes works that produce visceral affect-based responses. These works operate through material richness, surface tactility, striking geometry, animate form, and light.
Also included are works that encompass an inventive reading of aura. In this context, the exhibition models creative studio practice as a general force that extends beyond boundaries and containers– the aura here is not so much a property of an object that can be sensed, but rather a conceptual ambition to start with the everyday and then expand beyond it, producing new structures, symbols, or social interactions.
Other works look at an interior aura – they focus on individual subjects who are lost in an environment, engrossed in their own world. Through narrative, these works look at the psychological potential of aura to produce new experiences of reality.
Linking the works is the “business of art - the buying and selling of designed objects located within a market”. As much as art relies on creating “otherness”, the art market is ultimately about the desire of the intangible, the aura of the work. The art business provides a stage for aura.
The exhibition is a testimony to a multitude of perspectives, showing that the Business of Aura remains as intangible yet present today as it was seventy-five years ago.
For further information or to schedule an appointment please contact the gallery or Kelsey Harrington
401.316.4303 - kelseyharrington@gmail.com
Elga Wimmer, PCC 526 W. 26th St. #310 New York, NY 10001 212-206-0006
The Business of Aura group exhibition curated by Kelsey Harrington
Clockwise from entrance:
Matthew Schreiber Electric Chair, silver halide transmission hologram, 1993
Helen Brough
Urban Movements; Ultramarine Blue, oil on canvas, 24”x24”, 2010
Deliriously Urbane; The Great Lawn, oil on canvas, 24”x24”, 2010
Jon Meyer
Protractor with left, compass with right, simultaneously while wearing 3D glasses.,
ink on paper, 22 x 30", 2010
Snarkitecture
Slip Bench (Prototype) wood, lacquer, 18" x 86" x 18", 2009
Ghost Chair (Prototype) wood, lacquer, fabric, resin48" x 32" x 38", 2009
Steve Orlando
Addition, Subtraction, Greater than, and Less than, graphite on paper, 17” x 17”, 2010
Elizabeth Cooper
Untitled, oil and enamel on canvas, 36” x 48", 10” x 64", 2010
SOFTlab
Prototype 4a, plywood, acrylic, chipboard and mylar, 3’x3’x8’, 2010
Lauren Luloff
White (Angelica), oil on bed sheets, 78”x80”, 2009
yo_cy in collaboration with John Dolci, Cideng Sequence, 14 “Bleed”, felt, 2010
Studio Mode
Aether.SCS02, styrene, acrylic, micro controller, LEDs, electronic components, + custom circuit boards 80"x64"x42", 2010
Devin Powers
It Is Better to Examine Your Own Mistakes Than Those of Others, acrylic on canvas, 20”x16", 2009
Truth is Always New, acrylic on canvas, 42” x 30", 2009
Yuka Otani
Sunlight Studies, light faded black construction paper previously on a broken window, 9"x12" series of 9, 2010
Yuka Otani
Sunlight Studies, light faded black construction paper previously on a broken window, 9"x12" series of 9, 2010
Cmmnwlth in collaboration with Timothy Saccenti
Garden of Unearthly Delights, photograph courtesy of Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo, 33.5” x 76.5”, 2009
Masks: Garden of Unearthly Delights, painted SLA photoresin and horse hair (palomino pony tail),
Display: sectioned plywood vitrine with hand blown glass dome, 12”dia 50”h, 2009
Display: sectioned plywood vitrine with hand blown glass dome, 12”dia 50”h, 2009
Broadway Gallery 473 Broadway 7th Floor New York NY 10012 www.broadwaygallerynyc.com
The Business of Aura curated by Kelsey Harrington
August 19 – September 10, 2010 Monday-Friday 10-6pm
Front room - clockwise from elevator:
Jaqueline Cedar, Yellow Mod Sculpture, oil on canvas, 12”x16”, 2010
Jaqueline Cedar, Disappointment and Black Shadow, oil on canvas, 16”x12”, 2010
Jaqueline Cedar, Fitting In, oil on canvas, 9”x12”, 2010
Myles Bennett, Unsubstantial Territories 6 (8), ink, acrylic, and graphite on canvas and panel 20” x 20”, 2010
Myles Bennett, Unsubstantial Territories 6 (6), ink, acrylic, and graphite on canvas and panel 20” x 20”, 2010
Ryan Russo, Untitled, collage on post card, 4”x5.75”, 2009
Lauren Luloff, yellow, oil on canvas and bed sheets, 2010,26”x26”
Lauren Luloff, white (landscape), oil on canvas and bed sheets, 2010, 26”x26”
Lauren Luloff, white (clouds), oil on canvas and bed sheets, 16”x18” 2010
Emet Sosna, I am, oil and acylic on paper, with pea green frame, 31” x 42” 2009
Jeanne Jo, If a Mouth were to Whisper, installation dimensions vary, crocheted love letter, 2010
Amanda Lechner, Brontë(s) and Yellow Cake, graphite and gouache, 20:x30" 2010
Jeff Hutchison, Heavy Hands, collage, 8” x 10”, 2010
Jon Meyer Chickens by left, squares by right, simultaneously while wearing 3D glasses, ink on paper, 22” x 17" 2010
Ryan Russo, Shifting Frequencies, oil on panel, 17” x 14.75”, 2009
Ryan Russo, Collider, oil on panel, 16” x 11”, 2009,
Ryan Russo, Prelude, oil on panel, 16” x 18.75”, 2009
Christopher Ulivo, Look Behind You! 11”x11”, 2010
Christopher Ulivo, Kurt attacked in Dr. Frankenstein’s Laboratory, 9”x14”, 2010
Christopher Ulivo, Georgeous George vs Ghost Cat: In the House of Clocks, 11”x 14”, 2010
Christopher Ulivo, Georgeous George vs Ghost Cat: In the Villa of the Fawn, 11” x 14”, 2010
Jan Mollet, Untitled, cut vinyl on aluminum, signpost, concrete, 24”x24”, 2010
Jan Mollet, Untitled, cut vinyl on aluminum, (above elevator), 24”x24”, 2010
Jaqueline Cedar, Fam and Yam, oil on canvas, 40”x30”, 2010
Back room, clockwise from entrance:
Laura Greengold, Noon, oil on canvas, 12”x14.5”, 2010
Jaqueline Cedar, Scythe and Hangman, oil on canvas, 20”x16”, 2010
Rebecca Sherman, Brooklyn Waterfront Album Dedication 1 & 2, digital print of painting on vellum 11”x14”, 2010
Matthew Schreiber, Radiation, silver halide transmission hologram, 11”x14” 1993
Matthew Schreiber, Priest, silver halide transmission hologram, 11”x14” ,1993
Yuka Otani (overhead projector, water, bubbles) & Kelsey Harrington (glass spheres, water, drywall), 4’x4’, 2010
Kelsey Harrington, Stage & Aura (study), charcoal on paper, 26”x32”, 2010
Devin Powers, Still, ink on screen, 16”x22”, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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