LYNCH THAM

175 Rivington St New York, NY 10002 212.387.8190

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Music is playing here! On top of Art Miami New York, don’t forget to visit us today for the LES walk!

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LYNCH THAM is pleased to announce our participation in the LES walk next Sunday, May 17, 12-6 pm. See you there!

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Currently on View at LYNCH THAM | CARLO FERRARIS: I am no longer Obsessed with Winning | 15 April to 7 June 2015

In this multi-media exhibition including an audio work, Ferraris presents an inter-disciplinary approach to creating a world that consists of metaphorical symbols of events, fantasies, words and bodies. Sculptures and photographs oscillate between reality and fantasy, making constant shifts in narrative structure to confuse thematic intent. Ferraris' audio work and videos explore the relationship of visual art as it relates to music and its roots in Hip Hop culture. The exhibition extends outdoors with an installation viewable only during closing hours. LYNCH THAM acknowledges the Italian Cultural Institute for their support of the exhibition.

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Thank you to everyone who came out last night to attend the Quisqueya Henríquez, Double Double, Framed & Framed Opening Reception at LYNCH THAM Gallery

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WANG Jingyu, Dancing, 2012, at Talk to the Hand, on view at LYNCH THAM till 15 Feb.

WANG Jingyu, born in Shanxi, China in 1982, is an emerging Beijing-based visual artist that takes a sociopolitical approach to her work, and layers it with concepts of isolation, introspection, and childhood nostalgia. In particular, Wang’s art works focuses on the rapid economic and technological growth, rigorous educational standards, and depicts social changes in China using themes of sexuality. In Dancing, she portrays a hand, silhouetted against various shades of black, mimicking female masturbation gestures.

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Carlo Ferraris, born in 1960 in Romagnano Sesia, Italy, is a New York-based conceptual artist that works in photography, video, and sculpture.  Ferraris confronts the viewer by depicting an image of the urban condition and its perils, causing a atmospheric and confounding experience.  In his two photographs featured at LYNCH THAM, Untitled (2006) and Not Guilty (2007), Ferraris further provokes the viewer to explore social, political, and cultural themes juxtaposed with philosophical concepts such as isolation, ambiguity, and irony.

Ferraris has exhibited nationally and internationally, in solo and group exhibitions.  He won the Premio Saatchi & Saatchi for young artists in 1989 and the Fellowship for Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004. 

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Luisa Caldwell (b. 1965) is a Brooklyn based visual artist that is most known for her playful use of fruit stickers as the principal medium in her artworks. Caldwell has worked on public installations such as We Are Not From Here, and facades of public buildings. She recontextualizes produce stickers, and recodifies them by creating a mosaic sticker-type modern pointillism. Caldwell uses mixed media, a combination of painting and stickering in her art works generating a revisioning of overlooked products.  Moreover, Caldwell’s most recent work, G and D, is a minimalistic, yet complex detailed rendering of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes powerful enigmatic photograph by Dan Wynn. This is Caldwell’s most recent poignant political work. Caldwell is exhibited nationally and internationally.

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Richard Serra

Richard Serra, born in 1938 in San Francisco, California, has been a prominent figure in the development of Process and Minimalist Art. Serra studied at UC Berkeley where he worked in steel mills to support himself. Once at Yale University, he finished his B.F.A and M.F.A in painting. At Yale he worked closely with Josef Albers on the book Interaction of Color (New Haven: 1963). Influenced by his days at the steel mills, Serra continually works with steel and lead as the primary materials of his art works. The majority of art that Serra creates is large scale, site-specific installations and sculptures. Moreover, Serra’s art works help create a conversation between the art object and viewer, since many are public works and in reference to pop culture, such as Charlie Brown and Thinking on Your Feet.

  He began working on shorts in the late 60s and in the 70s and explored video performance art and a documentary. Hand Catching Lead, featured at Talk to the Hand exhibition, is Serra’s first short video art work. Serra’s emphasis on a repetitive movement and on a cyclical sequence, where the process of a hand catching material falling from outside the camera lens further accentuates Process Art.

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Martin Wong, Esmeralda, 1982, on view now at Talk to the Hand Exhibition @ LYNCH THAM, 175 Rivington Street, New York

One of the featured artists in the Talk to the Hand exhibition is Martin Wong, whose work "Esmeralda" (shown here) is included in the show. Wong's visual style depicts an imaginative intermingling of language, mystical references, and urban atmospheres. His distinct style emerged from his contribution to the East Village art scene in the 1980s alongside his passion for graffiti arts. Originally from Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California, Wong is a self-taught artist. In his earlier artwork, he was influenced by the neo-expressionist and flat urban styles of Edward Hopper and Jasper Johns surfaces. Once in NYC, he primarily focused on painting Latino and African-American subjects, and the immigrant experience in the gentrified Lower East Side neighborhood. In Wong’s series for the hearing impaired, he paints letters in American Sign Language in block-like forms recalling graffiti tags. His portrayal of the LES landscape and flat dark night-sky with constellations are then covered by these blocky hand gestures, literally spelling out the name of the artwork, as seen in "Esmeralda." Wong demonstrated solidarity with any dispossessed group. The trompe l'oeil effect his artworks possess are reminiscent of Renaissance tradition, where paintings were seen as a higher art form than music. 

Wong deliberately challenged viewers by portraying dispossessed people due to race, class, and sexual orientation, in an urban background. He demonstrated his knowledge of art history by incorporating specific genres with contemporary issues and subject matter. Wong returned to San Francisco, and painted Chinatown and the Chinese-American experience of the past. He was diagnosed with AIDS and passed away in 1999 in San Francisco. 

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Final week to view! Guglielmo Achille Cavellini's "Centennial Exhibition" at LYNCH THAM has been 100 years in the making. Don't miss out on seeing these historical carbon works.  At 175 Rivington Street, now through Sunday.

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Walter Robinson featured in ARTnews ...One particular pleasure was seeing a nice big wall of work by Walter Robinson, the painter-turned-art critic-turned-painter at the booth of New York’s LYNCH THAM gallery. Robinson, as you may know, came of age with the Pictures Generation gang, painting romantic scenes from pulp covers and movie posters, well before Richard Prince got into that game. (He also did spin paintings well before Damien Hirst.) Recently, he’s been painting photographs from clothing catalogs and porn sites—lots of women!—and also the odd cheeseburger or beer. Handsome stuff... http://www.artnews.com/2014/12/08/at-pulse-miami-beach-walter-robinson-offers-up-clothing-catalogs-porn/

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Carlo Ferraris featured in VICE - The Creator's Project “PULSE Play has been an incredible opportunity to introduce the contemporary art collectors at PULSE to leading artists working in video, net art, and immersive 3D environment,” Howard told The Creators Project. “It's a hub inside the tent where visitors are encouraged to lounge on couches, relax, and take in the works – which are also for sale,” she said. “PULSE-Play, which featured works by Tilo Baumgaertel, Alexandra Gorczynski, Carlo Ferraris, Tracey Snelling, and Idan Levin, made news this week because Zhulong Gallery successfully sold an art website by Gorczynski for $5,000. "The event is exclusively focused on contemporary art, and so it's been thrilling to see them embrace digital as one of the  most contemporary forms of art… http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/from-virtual-wallpapers-to-emoji-gardens-digital-art-at-miami-art-week

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LYNCH THAM is pleased to invite you to PULSE MIAMI BEACH, 4-7 December at IMPULSE Booth C3, with participating artists Carlo Ferraris and Walter Robinson. The fair opens Thursday, 4 December with a Private Preview Brunch from 9am to 1pm. Public hours are Thursday, 1pm-7pm, Friday and Saturday, 10am to 7pm, and Sunday, 10am to 5pm.

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LYNCH THAM is pleased to present Carlo Ferraris' video artworks 'I'm no longer obsessed with winning' and 'Return from Jupiter' at a special pre-screening celebration of PULSE Play Miami Beach 2014 at Tumblr's New York headquarters on 18 Nov 2014.  RSVP by 17 Nov 2014 to [email protected]

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In 1981, stamp and mail artist Edward F Higgins III painted Guglielmo Achille Cavellini’s body as a performance piece in red, white and green, the colors of the Italian flag. In 1995, 5 years after Cavellini’s death, the symbolic gesture became immortalized in music subculture as the iconic image made the album cover of “I am an Elastic Fire Cracker” by Tripping Daisy, an American neo psychedelic pop rock band. The cover art for the band's hit single “I Got a Girl” appropriates a candid photograph of Cavellini and Higgins mid-performance. Both artists acknowledge the photographer, making him implicit in their artistic creation.

LYNCH THAM's exhibition of Cavellini's ontological carbon series from the 60s and 70s will open 5 Nov through 21 Dec 2014. Please join us for the opening reception on 5 Nov, 6-8pm at 175 Rivington Street, New York.

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Artist of the Day: Pedro Calapez- Extending Past the Edges View article here: http://dayoftheartist.com/tag/pedro-calapez/

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Cavellini reinterpretation by Bruno Chiarlone. Learn more about the diagram and download a template here. -jt