Sara Meltzer Gallery

01/04/2011

Upcoming performances at Tide Pool

12/03/2010

Sara Meltzer Gallery/Projects is pleased to present TIDE POOL. The Exhibition will be on view December 10th, 2010-January 8th, 2011.
Opening December 10th, 6-8pm
For more information please visit www.sarameltzer.com

11/03/2010

11/03/2010

Sara Meltzer Gallery is pleased to present Sarah Cain: California does psychic. The exhibition is on view until November 20th, 2010. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday 12-5pm.

To inaugurate the transformation of Sara Meltzer Gallery into the new Sara Meltzer Gallery/ Projects we are proud to announce California does Psychic, a solo project by Los Angeles based artist, Sarah Cain. This project is done in collaboration with Miki Garcia of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum and Shamim Momin of L.A.N.D (both SBCAF and L.A.N.D will be presenting their own exhibitions of new work by Sarah Cain in 2011). The collaboration of these three projects will culminate in a three-part book co-produced by Sara Meltzer Gallery/ Projects, SBCAF and L.A.N.D that will be launched in completion in fall 2011.

Cain has been on-site for one month exploring and altering the current physicality of the given space, a former garment manufacturing studio, located on the 3rd floor of 525-531 West 26th Street.

The site-specific painted installation traverses wall, floor, windows, and ceiling and includes several large canvases placed on and off the existing walls further redefining the state of the space. A deconstruction of the original gallery occurs via incisions into the canvases exposing the under structure. Growing out of the nuances of the raw space - brick walls, patch-worked wood floors, fluorescent lighting and exposed windows, a central composition unfolds.

The exhibition title California does psychic takes its name from a line written by the late, second-generation, New York School poet, Hannah Weiner.

Cain shares a connection with Hannah Weiner vis-à-vis their desire to challenge media through experimentation. Hannah Weiner is known for pioneering a methodology that focused on the intrinsic significance of person relationships and the everyday, an approach Cain also employs.

An accompanying aspect of the exhibition is a poster created by Cain composed of multiple texts taken from the postings by poets reflecting on Hannah Weiner's life at the time of her passing. Cain created and synesthetic code for the alphabet and merged selected written memories into a single voice thereby creating a text piece that interconnects the poet and the artist.

An additional element to this installation will be a presentation of sound pieces curated by Matteah Baim, and includes works by contemporary New York based musicians: Leila Hekmat, Peter Zuspan, FANAL, Trevor Shimizu, GROWING, Leif Ritchey, Matteah Baim, and Los Angeles based Lucky Dragons. This sound component is in direct response to Cain's work and the exhibition title California does psychic, and will be played at the opening party as well as daily during gallery hours from 4pm - 40:40pm.

04/23/2010

Lee Boroson: Universal Solvent. Tonight, 6 - 8pm.

04/07/2010

Sara Meltzer Gallery is pleased to present Universal Solvent, an exhibition of new works by Lee Boroson. The exhibition is on view April 23 - May 29, 2010 with an opening reception on Friday, April 23rd from 6 to 8 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11am - 6pm.
In this new body of work Lee Boroson considers cultural influences on our perception of the natural world. He views landscape as a construct, a very particular point of reference to view the natural world. With a deep interest in the Hudson River School painters and their attempt to capture nature, his interests lie in issues of denial, appropriation and and ownership as they relate to representation and current environmental concerns. The works in Universal Solvent consider the containment of landscape through the sculptural representation of elemental forces, reassembling these components in one environment. By choosing subjects that are not conducive to being sculpture - water, ice, and smoke - he confronts the impossible task of capturing natural phenomena that are visually real, yet substantively ineffable, transient or evanescent.
Universal Solvent creates a fictional landscape that considers the ability that materials have to speak to the condition or state of another material or substance. The sculptures are concrete and descriptive but not deceptive - they abandon realism for abstraction, often uncovering naturally occurring patterns that generate form. The works embody the stillness of sculpture versus the fluidity of nature: a cascading waterfall composed of hundreds of silk tassels; a resin cast of a puddle of water; miniature icebergs perched on beds of illuminated crystals. These works and others are presented underneath crypt-like vaulted arcs of billowing smoke clouds in the form of an inflatable sculpture; a reoccurring mode in Boroson's practice.
Lee Boroson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include Esther Massry Gallery, The College at St. Rose, Albany, NY and GLOW, Santa Monica, CA. He has had solo exhibitions at various venues including the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Artspace, New Haven, CT; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE and The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York. Boroson has received numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Professional Development Grants from the Rhode Island School of DEsign. He received a MFA from Indiana University, a BFA from State University of New York, New Paltz and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

11/05/2009

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 09... Check us out at http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/ifw/

Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas.