The Angel and the Tooth Fairy 2013 mixed media 62" x 58"
Park Place Gallery is pleased to present Happy Sad, a solo exhibition by Jonathan Torres. Torres is a Puerto Rican artist from San Juan who now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. This body of paintings and drawings explores otherworldliness and his reality of living in the diaspora.
Park Place Gallery is pleased to present Julian Wong’s solo show RIVER SERIES, an Artsy exclusive exhibition. Wong fuses Eastern and Western sensibilities using calligraphic color infused rhythmic harmonies of light and shadow. He constructs compositions from observation and imagination with a distinctive poetic voice. His dynamic abstractions are powerful and hypnotic. Wong’s work offers a meditative landscape where river, city, and sky converge.
Opening reception: Thursday, May 12th (6-9 pm)
Friday through Sunday: 12-6pm
Weekdays by appointment https://parkplace.gallery/contact
CITY LIMITS
Curated by Peter Schenck
Kerri Ammirata Lauren Comito Ryan Dawalt Robert Otto Epstein Jeff Fichera Simon Slater Christina Sucgang
City Limits is a group exhibition focusing on seven artists that explore the formal structure of the grid, but with wildly disparate outcomes. All of these artists create their work within the urban environment or just outside of it, allowing this particular landscape with its gridded out street system to shape and inform their work.
Park Place Gallery is pleased to present VANITAS, a solo show by Peter Schenck. This exhibition includes paintings and drawings created over the last two and half years.
Works in this exhibition are based on the theme of Vanitas: a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, mixed with the wildly colorful compositions by Peter Schenck. Schenck’s new paintings and works on paper will feature elements of the classical still life and portraiture that poke fun at the human condition and the inward life of the studio artist. Paint brushes, palettes, skulls, leaves, pedestals, fruit, sculpture, and the artist himself all jostle for attention in Schenck’s world of gallows humor.
VANITAS, painting and works on paper by Peter Schenck on Artsy at Park Place Gallery
Viewing Room: https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/park-place-gallery-vanitas-peter-schenck
Show: https://www.artsy.net/show/park-place-gallery-vanitas?sort=partner_show_position
Park Place Gallery is pleased to present “The Figure Emerges”, paintings and drawings by John Mulvaney on Artsy https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/park-place-gallery-john-mulvaney-the-figure-emerges and https://www.artsy.net/show/park-place-gallery-john-mulvaney-the-figure-emerges?sort=partner_show_position. In this solo exhibition Mulvaney observes the figure through his works. Among many accolades Mulvaney was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2001. He lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hello Everyone,
Please join us for this special event, MAGIC and CATASTROPHE: a concerted effort!
Sunday May 24 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time we will present an online screening of the film ACME DEATH KIT followed by a REAL LIVE performance.
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Hoping you are well and safe. Sending peaceful vibes and positive energy.
Warmly,
John, Paweł, Matt and Tim
Matt Freedman is an artist, writer and performer living in the basement of a synagogue in Queens. He and Tim Spelios have been putting on their Endless Broken Time talking, drawing and drumming series since 2015. Look for it soon on a Zoom near you.
Tim Spelios takes photos, assembles collage, plays drums, cuts up sounds, makes sculpture, and builds cabinets. He has shown his collage and installations at Exit Art, the Drawing Center, Sculpture Center, Smack Mellon Studios, Long Island University, Pierogi Gallery, and Parkers Box among others.
John Bruce is a researcher, filmmaker, strategist, and educator. He serves as the Director of the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at Parsons School of Design, The New School. He co-directed the film End of Life, with Paweł Wojtasik, featuring Matt Freedman.
Paweł Wojtasik is a filmmaker and video artist born in Łódź, Poland and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Paweł’s most recent feature film Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work, shot in Benares and Kerala, India, had its NYC premiere in February 2020 at MoMA as part of Doc Fortnight.
STUDIO 10 GALLERY. Directed by Larry Greenberg, Studio 10 Gallery exhibited Freedman and Spelios where they first produced the Endless Broken Time series as part of a month-long installation in March and April 2015, during which they created eight original performances spread over four weekends. Endless Broken Time evolved as an open-ended iteration of the original project, and continues to embrace the infinitely fluid nature of storytelling; the stories will be renewed periodically and will never end.
PARK PLACE GALLERY. Founded in 2017, contemporary Park Place Gallery Brooklyn is directed by the artist Michael Holden, and is curated by Holden along with Anna Ehrsam. The artist-run project is designed to empower artists and curators to inspire the culture they exist within. Holden and Ehrsam curated the exhibition (IM)MORTALITY by Bruce, Wojtasik, and Freedman in May 2018.
Unrelated, with works by Jimbo Blachly, Peter Dudek, Emily Feinstein and Monika Sosnowski.
Curated by Peter Dudek
1GAP Gallery
One Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, New York 11238
SENSE OF PLACE
Curated by Michael Holden
May 10, 2019 – August 26, 2019 (by appointment- michaelholdenart@gmail.com)
Opening Reception, Friday May 10, 2019 (6-9pm)
Artists:
Gina Borg
Jennifer Coates
Mary DeVincentis
Allison Gildersleeve
Catherine Haggarty
Angela Heisch
Katherine Jackson
April Zanne Johnson
Deborah Kirklin
Nikki Lindt
Kristen Schiele
Emma Tapley
Nichole van Beek
Rachael Wren
1Gap Gallery is pleased to present Sense of Place, a group exhibition curated by Michael Holden. This show explores places observed through the eyes and imaginations of women artists whose inspirations of place enhance their languages of painting. Aesthetic statements find insight through both strength and sensitivity. The painter Agnes Martin wrote, “Walking seems to cover time and space, but in reality, we are always just where we started. I walk, but in reality, I am hand in hand with contentment on my own doorstep.”
“Place incarnates the experiences and aspirations of a people. Place is not only a fact to be explained in the broader frame of space, but it is also a reality to be clarified and understood from the perspectives of the people who have given it meaning.” Yi-Fu Tuan wrote in 1977. A sense of place can spark the imagination through childhood memories of exploration and play or an adult’s perspective on the relationship of place to self. The artistic practice can identify with place to gain familiarity with the unfamiliar searching for new interpretations of art.
Women’s voices now guide society during this politically problematic time. A well-informed statement holds greater profoundness as we are forced to defend human rights and face a delicate ecosystem affected by global warming. Art counters the prevalence of human dominance that has detracted from the cultivation of an awareness of place. A sentimental attachment to place can be informed from one’s range of experiences from joy to fear. The medium of painting allows for prolonged observations to construct mindful images that are unique in today’s fast-moving world of immediate images.
A sense of place is found in this exhibition’s contemporary perspective by these women artists. Sense of Place will immerse the viewer in a haven of enjoyment and nurturing, that both challenges and encourages one to reflect.
Exhibition Opening: Friday, May 18, 7:30-10:00PM
Special Event: Friday, May 18, 6:30-7:30PM (prior registration necessary)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/special-opening-event-immortality-tickets-46015563790
An Evening with Jem Cohen, Saturday, May 19, 7:30-9:30PM (prior registration necessary)https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screenings-an-evening-with-jem-cohen- tickets-46015416349
PARK PLACE GALLERY, 661 Park Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216 https://parkplace.galleryhttps://goo.gl/maps/XLRjoftoXY12
Gallery hours: Saturday, May 19, 12:00PM-7:00PM
Sunday, May 20 12:00AM- 7:00PM
Opening reception: Friday April 20th 6-10pm
Gallery hours: April 21st-29th 11am-5pm
Curated by Michael Holden and Peter Schenck
Opening Reception, Friday December 15th (7-10pm)
Gallery Days: Saturday & Sunday December 16th – 17th (11am-6pm)
Artists:
• Caleb Brown
• Amanda Church
• Jennifer Coates
• Shoshana Dentz
• Jeff Fichera
• Daniel Gerwin
• Douglas Goldberg
• Everest Hall
• Sue Havens
• Michael Holden
• Amy Mahnick
• Patrick Neal
• Scott Robinson
• Zoe Pettijohn Schade
• Peter Schenck
• Emilie Selden
• Clintel Steed
• Bryce Vinokurov
• Crys Yin
We are living in an age of endless sources of entertainment and gratification, or so it would seem. After all this searching and looking at thousands of images, primarily on our tiny screens, are we any closer to satiating our wants and desires? There are times, when slowing down our brains and eyes to the simple relationships of still objects is exactly what the doctor ordered.
This return to the tradition of simply looking at objects and discovering their internal connections is a welcome respite from an image saturated and disconnected world. The Still Life Show at Park Place Gallery, focuses on the weird, funny, intoxicating, ominous, intimate, mysterious, and extraordinary aspects of the still life genre. A subject matter that for centuries played a back seat role to it’s flashier art historical siblings: historical and figurative painting.
This exhibition is the third installment, by curators: Michael Holden and Peter Schenck, which serves as an end cap on our three exhibitions focusing on some of the biggest art historical genres in Western art: figurative, landscape, and still life painting. We aim to shed a fresh spotlight on what can be a still life in our present age and to cast off preconceived notions in order to elevate these objects into a new realm of understanding.
Peter Schenck, 2017
Curated by Michael Holden and Peter Schenck
Opening Reception: Friday, November 17th
(7-10pm)
Weekend Gallery Hours:
Saturday, Nov 18th (11am-6pm)
Sunday, Nov 19th (11am - 6pm)
Artists:
Gina Borg
Eric den Breejen
Ryan DaWalt
Danielle Dimston
Hilary Doyle
Sean Downey
Raymond Dumas
Robert Otto Epstein
Jeff Fichera
Ryan Michael Ford
Grady Gerbracht
Dan Gratz
Philip Hardy
Angela Heisch
Philip Hinge
Michael Holden
Irena Jurek
Stephanie Kao
Zackary Keeting
Bonny Leibowitz
Mike Olin
Chung Park
Christopher Schade
Kristen Schiele
Peter Schenck
Lisa Sylvester
Jonathan Torres
Albert Weaver
Alexi Worth
As autumn’s cold winds swipe leaves from trees, we are warned of the ineffable effects of death and beyond. This exhibition, Beyond, payed homage to the traditions which honor the dead and have been used as a point of departure for artists throughout the millennia.
Beyond exhibited the works of its contemporary artists who explore the fundamental nature of reality. These artists’ processes can allow both the conscious and subconscious mind to evolve into coexisting ideas. Beyond offered works of art that find new interpretations for the meaning of form.
Beyond was curated by Michael Holden and exhibited works by Bryan De Roo, Anna Ehrsam, Ryan Michael Ford, Alfredo Gisholt, Christopher Mir, John Mulvaney, Mike Olin, Rachael Senchoway, Simon Slate, Jonathan Torres, Albert Weaver, and Julian Wong.
The Landscape Show is the second of a series of three exhibitions curated by Michael Holden and Peter Schenck. These three shows explore traditional subjects: human form; landscape; and still life. They provide access to some of the premier emerging and established artists.
We are human and reflect ourselves through the Human Form. The Landscape Show refers to our sense of place as well as its substance and spacial properties. The Still life Show will examine our relationship to the other. These three exhibitions bring many contemporary aesthetic examples together to examine a greater view of how we are interpreting these three traditional subjects.
The Landscape Show includes works by: Rachelle Agundes, Tess Bilhartz, Ryan DaWalt, Grady Gerbracht, Dan Gratz, Michael Holden, Zachary Keeting, Chung Park, and Chris Schade. This group of accomplished artists explore the landscape in unique ways, finding personal expression through their decisions in the making of their work. The artist will always explore our world in amazement to grasp our sense of place: its meaning in our time and eternal time. Their worlds can now be our worlds.
Park Place Gallery is pleased to present “The Figure Emerges”, paintings and drawings by John Mulvaney. In this solo exhibition Mulvaney observes the figure through his works. Among many accolades Mulvaney was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2001. He lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
