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Ayakamay “Captive Train_reck” on Art Nerd New York http://art-nerd.com/newyork/ayakamay-captive-train_reck/

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just opened:

“Iconophilia”  Peter Daverington

The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie St., NYC

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thru May 31:

“Post Human Utopia”  Sarah Bereza, George Boorujy, Kate Clark,  Peter Daverington, Valerie Hegarty, Ryan McLennan,  Lori Nix, Jean-Pierre Roy, Ryan Scully, Doug Young

The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie St., NYC

The exhibition, which refers to Alan Weisman’s book The World Without Us, “poses a fascinating thought experiment: if you take every living human off the Earth, what traces of us would linger and what would disappear? Will the footprint of humanity ever fade away completely or have humans so irrevocably altered the environment that the impact of man will continue to shape the earth’s landscape far beyond the days of our departure?“ Curated by gallerists Keith Schweitzer and Jason Patrick Voegele, the show offers a deftly balanced sampling of such scenarios. Kate Clark’s animal-human hybrid sculptures gaze knowingly as they lay before Lori Nix’s photographically enlarged diorama of a shopping mall ravaged by time and nature. Valerie Hegarty’s “Autumn on the Wissahicken with Tree“ appears to age the gallery itself. Other standouts include two large works by Sarah Bereza and a cinematically apocalyptic oil by Jean-Pierre Roy.

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Editor’s Pick thru Feb 28: “Voids and Invocations”  Evie Falci The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie St., NYC “I'm a person in the world; I don't make art for other artists. I draw from many different sources and interests that I have, and obviously fashion and beauty is one of them… It's interesting for me to take things that could be dismissed and make them really powerful and undeniable in their beauty and color. The studs on leather are a natural counterbalance, the masculine to the feminine and also, formally the black and white of the silver as relating to drawing—tone, versus the rhinestones as pigments and paint.” - INTERVIEW MAGAZINE (11/21/14) “The studworks I've been making are decidedly more figurative in terms of the forms being rendered. They relate to various traditions representation of a spiritual dimension. Things like kachina dolls, the space that Aboriginal people refer to as "the dream time", voodoo veves, and ancient Mesopotamian figurines, and sigils found in both contemporary and historic magical texts. It is not necessarily important to me that an individual will be able to decipher specific symbols, it is much more important for the viewer to be able to read a specific feeling or energy being projected. I do like to use a lot of eyes, which for me refer to Nazars or “evil eyes” common in Turkey as a way to ward off evil, always a good thing to have if you ask me.“ - Evie Falci

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Editor's Pick recently opened: “Les Fleurs du Mal”  Ulrike Theusner & Paul Brainard   The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie St., NYC 2-person exhibition of drawings by Ulrike Theusner (Leipzig, Germany) and Paul Brainard (New York) exploring the darknesses and immoralities of society from two starkly contrasting perspectives. Theusner's delicate ink drawings tell a tale of moral decline through a visual narration illustrating a macabre underbelly of the wealthy set. Her lush settings depict a hallucinatory grotesqueness underlying the gluttony of an imagined male heir consumed by gambling, prostitutes and an excessive lifestyle. Conversely, Brainard's drawings scrape upward from a murky bottom layer with a bombardment of imagery depicting pornography, prostitution, and editorialized renderings of celebrities and historical figures. While Theusner's work feels deceptively heavenly, as if drawn with a feather, Brainard's work feels brutally carved, as if knifed by switchblade into a high school desk, both to a powerful effect. - thru Dec 14