We just wanted to announce some exhibitions by artists/members as well as friends of [PAM] (and a co-founder of [PAM] - GO Raphaele !) and that are happening during the Armory Art Fairs Week. Theses events should be really fun.

We hope to see you there.

1. ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY @ DiVA Streets
2. LIVE @ Supreme Trading
3. Marc DuPucheron Gallery Presents Raphaele Shirley
4. Johnna MacArthur @ Like the Spice
5. Kenseth Armstead’s STUDIO @ LMCC Workspace
6. Amelia-Winger-Bearskin @ Grace Performance Space
7. Devins Den - New Gallery & Party

ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY @ DiVA Streets

BLEU ACIER, Inc. When I Look Up, I Fall Down a new video and sound installation by collobortive artists ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY

On view February 17 -24 2007 during DiVA Streets:
321 West 24th St @ 8th Ave, New York 12 -8 p m
and simultaneously in their solo exhibition entitled
Controlled Bum, at the gallery in FL thru March 10.

ROBYN VOSHAROT/ SVEN HUMPHREY action of transplanting footage gathered from on old-growth forest to a shipping container in the midst of Manhattan reinforces the mental disconnect between nature and its conversion to consumables. The lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter. Experienced with intense audio in such a confined, temporal space, this disorienting spin amplifies a larger ecological as well as personal conundrum.

The artists are based in New York and work collaboratively in video, sound, photography and drawing.

For more info contact Erika Schneider-

813.215.0622 | This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it | www.bleuacier.com

or the artist's:

917.407.3824 | This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it | www.voshardthumphrey.com

DiVA Streets in conjunction with DiVA NY 07, Fab. 22-25 |www.divafair.com

LIVE @ SUPREME TRADING WILLIAMSBURG as Part of AFTER HOURS IN BROOKLYN

Curated byElizabeth M Grady - Whitney Museum

Opening Reception Tuesday February 20th 2007 5pm-10pm

Works by : LAURENT AJINA ANTHONY AUERBACH BEATRICE VALENTINE AMRHEIN [dNASAb] ANDREAS HAGENBACH MARLENE HARING JURGEN MESSENSEE MITCH MILLER IRIS NEMECEK LETA PEER WILL RYMAN RAPHAELE SHIRLEY UWE WALTHERMARGRET WEBER-UNGER Location

Supreme Trading
213 N. 8th Street
Williamsburg,Brooklyn
www.supremetradingny.com

Contact
347.342.2201
347.342.2224
www.puechredon.com

Marc DuPucheron Gallery Presents Raphaele Shirley

Scope New York Feb 22-26, Linocn Center NYC

Please join Marc de Puechredon Gallery in celebrating new work by Raphaele Shirley at Scope Art Fair Lincoln Center. This multi-media installation marks her arrival on the international art scene as a full-bodied and mature voice.

Before giving herself to creating art fulltime, Shirley from 1993- 2000 worked on the creation of public art projects and festivals, in collaboration with other artists, such as Nam June Paik and for events such as the New York International Fringe Festival. Skill sets from these previous careers directly inform the work she now creates without lessening its conceptual integrity. In fact, far from being a reconciliatory hybrid of the diverse fields, Shirley’s work employs the spatial magic of theatrical convention while addressing more the more formal concerns of serious contemporary photography. The result is a startlingly clear vocabulary that moves organically toward riffs on abstraction, space, surface, light, form and the everyday.

In preparation for “Elevation in Time,” which is essentially a full-scale study for four elevators in a landmark building in Monte Carlo, Shirley began this work by defining a set of rules. Instead of acting as a limiting agent upon the creative process, these restrictions revitalized her approach and made the work necessary and focused. To get an idea of the rules, a few examples:

No formal composition, i.e. do not create narrative, Only quick efforts to document yet systematic daily documentation Continue to reinterpret subject through various media: photography, sculpture, painting Only one subject matter. Use only black, white, brown and green as palette

“Elevation in Time” succeeds as a multi-media sculpture primarily because its impetus began as a solution for a public art project. Thus, its physicality has the clarity of practicality. The study in this exhibition resembles the final version but is not an exact replica. The two versions share the elevator’s shape, as well as the tri-panel interior photograph and white marble floor. However, the study employs more extreme measures to augment the viewer’s perception and experience in more thoughtful and liberal ways. Infrared sensors in the floor trigger the anemic florescent light to lower while imbuing the space with an antique glow from dozens of single filament exposed bulbs. Also, the sensors, which respond only to the viewer’s weight and/or physical presence, ameliorate the cliché of elevator music by activating ambient sound art.

The photograph in “Elevation in Time” is a single image that has been divided into equal three sections in an effort to impinge on the viewer’s space with questions of perspective and dimensionality. To that end, “Elevation in Time” is confrontational. However, instead of violence or politics, its message moves toward astonishment and the sublime. The image itself is of piece of collected Styrofoam that Shirley found unusually fascinating. Its circular molding shares more than a passing resemblance to the bleachers of great stadiums like the Coliseum in Rome. And yet, because of the porous nature of Styrofoam, its formal curvature appears somehow organic, like a dried sponge or marble.

Contact
347.342.2201
347.342.2224
www.puechredon.com

Johnna MacArthur @ Like the Spice

Artist Reception - Friday February 23, 2007 - 6:30-10:30 PM

AFTER HOURS IN BROOKLYN - Saturday February 24, 2007 - 6:30-10:30 PM

Like the Spice Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of color and black and white photographs by Johnna MacArthur. The exhibition will open on Friday, February 23, and close on Saturday, March 24.

BETWEEN YOU AND ME is a selection of 30” x 36” C-prints and 11” x 14” silver gelatin prints culled from the artist’s expanding database of people she has known between 1972 and 2004. Predicated on the idea of portraiture as a conversation, MacArthur invites her subjects to participate in the construction of their own image. Subjects are asked to choose their own locations and, armed with the cable release, the moment of “click.” When she asks “where would you like to be seen, by me, by others?” MacArthur challenges her subjects, as well as her viewers, to ask if where we are defines who we are.
MacArthur transports her 4x5 camera and lighting equipment to settings as varied as bedrooms and mountaintops. She asserts herself as photographer through dense compositions and by directing her subjects gaze to meet her own. MacArthur writes:
I ask my subjects to look at me when the shutter is released. This is done not only to eliminate a mirror-like relationship between their gaze and the camera’s lens but also to request a commitment to the moment of seeing one another and to the camera as our witness. The result is a self-portrait, a portrait of I and thou.

Nodding to secrecy but also to something potentially untrue, BETWEEN YOU AND ME begs awareness of the fictions that make up any portrait and of the gaps between an image projected and an image perceived. The project’s title, I & Thou, is appropriated from Martin Buber’s acclaimed classic and invokes Buber’s notions of standing in relation to an Other and to the inherent complexities of this mutable exchange.

Like The Spice is Located at 224 Roebling St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 (between S.2nd & S.3rd)

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phone: 718.388.5388
web: http://www.likethespice.com

GET INSIDE kenseth armstead’s STUDIO

WORKS IN PROGRESS @ THE COUNCIL’S WORKSPACE ARTIST STUDIOS @ 120 Broadway

WHAT: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Open Studios
WHERE: 120 Broadway, 8th Floor
WHEN: Friday, February 23, 1-6 PM + Sunday, February 25, 1-6 PM (Closed Saturday)
WHO: 16 Artists @ 120 Broadway (ME included) + another 14 @ 200 Hudson street
HOW: RSVP IS REQUIRED: http://www.formassembly.com/forms/34167

Brought to you by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Special thanks to Silverstein Properties, Inc. and Trinity Real Estate.

Amelia-Winger-Bearskin @ Grace Exhibition Space
as part of AFTER HOURS IN BROOKLYN

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007 Williamsburg Galleries Open Until 11:00 PM

Amelia-Winger-Bearskin will perform "Johnny My Love" - a live musical chromakey performance that finally expels the war which never ends @ 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 - free -

In the gallery :

INTO ORBITING REVOLUTIONS! FEBRUARY 16 – 25 Thursday to Sunday, 1:00 – 8:00 pm

YOSHIKO KANAI. LISA MARIE PATZER, HIROSHI SHAFER, JENNIFER TREUTING

INTO ORBITING REVOLUTIONS: a new multi-media installation series giving voice to revolutionary ideas, presented through the visions of the artists who orbit each other, with whatever their revolutions may be – whether they be personal or public.

YOSHIKO KANNAI: “Utopia/Dystopia”: “Between towers symbolizing Eastern and Western cities, a tiny ocean slowly seeps through plaster plains and rains down on sugar mountains in Yoshiko Kanai's poetic sculpture. The water erodes a new shape to the land in this handmade microcosm of our fragile globe.” SpaceLab 3/05

LISA MARIE PATZER: is a video/performance artist who has worked with multi-media for 10 years. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in both festivals and fine art galleries. The piece “Finger Tapping” is an interactive performance video installation. The concept for the work comes from recent psychological research that has proven humans are able to perceive minute changes in rhythmic sound and make subconscious adjustments in finger tapping activity. The conclusions of the research suggests that humans have an internal mechanism that automatically guides motor actions in response to stimuli that change without our even being aware of it. HIROSHI SHAFER: I don't give any titles to all of my recent art works. My previous title was
"Life is easy when mooching off others. It is even better to mooch off two people, or two creatures than just one." (2002) The title of the last exhibition is " ‘That's a greeeeeat idea ~ but I can't do the impossible’, a dog muttered " (2003) I hope the above will let you know who I am and what my art work is about. The goal for my life is to live easy and smile, quite seriously. I believe too much thinking is not the shortcut to an answer. I'd be glad to show you how to "Live easy" through my art projects.

JENNIFER TREUTING: “Follow the Thread” This installation explores these realms of possibilities using nature imagery and feminine metaphor. Visitors are invited to enter this inner space of choice and decision-making where they’ll be surrounded by the metaphoric imagery including yards of ribbon and hundreds of keys. Jennifer Treuting has a BFA in Film and Animation from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her work has appeared in festivals around the country.

In association with the WGA.

www.gracespace.multiply.com

Devins Den

NEW GALLERY. REAL PAINTINGS FOR A CHANGE!

BIG PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT - February 24, 2007 8 PM

This is not the new Williamsburg. Why lie? Dirty dishes in the sink, blaring TV with bad reception and a fat musty couch. That's Devin's Den,Williamsburg's newest gallery. The grand opening features the paintings of Tom Billings. The guys who run this space don't really have it together. The space is a slapped together hovel excuse for a gallery. And proud of it. Oldschool. Parked in the kitchen of one of the neighborhood's oldest continuously running illegal art live/shares. If you don't know who Tom Billings is, you're in for a treat. His paintings are right at home˜they're the real-thing, dirt-bag beautiful. They will sell out. The trust-afariansare slumming. What kind of model is Chelsea anyway? We want the art back! Authenticity, friends! Who are we kidding? This is how we live.

Upstairs from Jack the Pelican. 487 Driggs Ave. bet N. 9 and 10.