Llyn Foulkes at the New Museum
June 18 - September 8, 2013
June 18, 2013
We are excited to announce Llyn Foulkes' upcoming major retrospective at the New Museum, curated by Ali Subotnick, which will run from June 18 through September 8, 2013.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue including essays by novelist and art critic Jim Lewis, writer Jason Weiss, and curator Ali Subotnick.
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Paul Laffoley at the Hayward Gallery
June 11 - August 26, 2013
June 11, 2013
We are delighted to announce Paul Laffoley's participation in The Alternative Guide to the Universe at the Hayward Gallery in London, curated by Ralph Rugoff. The show will be open from June 11 through August 26, 2013 and will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
London SE1 8XX
To view Paul Laffoley's artist page, please click here.
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Dorothea Tanning in 55th Venice Biennale
June 1 - November 24 2013
June 1, 2013
The Encyclopedic Palace curated by Massimiliano Gioni
June 1 - November 24, 2013
The 55th International Art Exhibition will take place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale (preview: May 29th, 30th and 31st 2013), as well as in various venues the city.
The title chosen by curator Massimiliano Gioni for the 55th International Art Exhibition is: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace. Massimiliano Gioni introduced the choice of theme evoking the artist self-taught Italian-American Marino Auriti that“on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite. Auriti’s plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all-embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried - often in vain - to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness.”
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Llyn Foulkes at the Punta della Dogana
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013
PRIMA MATERIA
May 30, 2013 - December 31, 2014
Curated by Michael Govan
Punta della Dogana
François Pinault Foundation
Dorsoduro, Venice
www.palazzograssi.it
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Hypnotherapy: From Lynch to the Lynchian and the Dreams in Between
May 11, 2013
HYPNOTHERAPY: FROM LYNCH TO THE LYNCHIAN AND THE DREAMS IN BETWEEN
by Thomas Micchelli
May 11, 2013
Hypnotherapy, a group show at Kent Fine Art, gives David Lynch fans a chance to revisit the iconic filmmaker’s alarming artwork a year after his solo turn at Jack Tilton. But that’s only one, conspicuous though it is, of its strengths. What really matters is the opportunity to experience a museum-quality exhibition that approaches the pitfalls of latter-day surrealism with as much intelligence and refinement as this one does.
As you’ve already gleaned from title, the theme is hypnosis, though you can walk through the show without thinking much about it. There are no clever curatorial conceits standing in the way of the art. The concept is simply a stand-in for the fluidity of the borderline between the conscious and subconscious mind.
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Object Man: Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer
Los Angeles Review of Books
May 5, 2013
OBJECT MAN: ON LLYN FOULKES AT THE HAMMER
Brian Kim Stefans
May 5th, 2013
On view at the Hammer Museum through May 19, 2013.
IT’S A STRANGE BIT of irony that two of Llyn Foulkes’s major deities — they each appear in important portraits at the artist’s current retrospective at the Hammer Museum — are both virtuosic illusionists: Salvador Dali and Walt Disney. By “deities” I don’t mean heroes. While as a young man Foulkes found inspiration in imitating Dali’s morphological, optical illusions (his 1953 painting Images of Perception attempts a classic Dali effect, that of having figures in the foreground outline some patch of sky or earth that transforms absence into presence, the negative space forming a head in profile or the bust of Robespierre), he was aghast at what he saw as the wholesale conformity inflicted by Disney and, using his paintings as a bully pulpit, he’s made this opinion widely known.
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Llyn Foulkes. Cow, 1963. Oil on canvas.
Photo by Jason Dewey.
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The New Yorker Passport to the Arts
May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013
Kent Fine Art is pleased to announce its participation in the 8th annualThe New Yorker Passport to the Arts, a celebration of the New York art scene, on Saturday, May 4th.
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Paul Lafolley in "Outsiderism"
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013
OUTSIDERISM
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
April 11 - June 8, 2013
1216 Arch Street, 5A
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 18
6-8 pm
This exhibition explores the various manifestations of so-called outsider and self-taught art in a contemporary context, examining the frameworks we use as both viewers and artists in making sense of the impulses responsible for a wide-range of artistic creativity.
Right: Paul Laffoley, Pistis Sophia, 2004-06
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Paul Laffoley in "#FUTUREMYTH"
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013
#FUTUREMYTH
April 18 - May 5, 2013
Curated by Christina Latina and Daniel Leyva
319 Scholes
319 Scholes Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
319scholes.org
What’s the state of the modern myth? How do myths proliferate, what do we use to represent them, and what’s the cultural value of storytelling? #FUTUREMYTH presents digital artists engaged in contemporary myth-making who are using the gallery as a way to navigate, define, and discuss the current landscape of mythology and its relevance in our technologically dependent lives.
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Paul Laffoley at the Henry Art Gallery
April 6 - September 29, 2013
April 6, 2013
We are excited to announce Paul Laffoley: Premonitions of the Bauharoque, an upcoming major survey at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, curated by Luis Croquer, which will run from April 6 through September 29, 2013.
Artist Talk with Paul Laffoley
Saturday, April 6, 2 pm
Join exhibiting artist and founder of the Boston Visionary Cell, Paul Laffoley for a discussion on the conceptual overlap between art history, architecture, classical literature, natural and occult sciences, and science fiction in contemporary painting.
To view Paul Laffoley's artist page, please click here.
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Paul Laffoley at the Casa del Lector, Madrid
April - September 2013
April 4, 2013
Paul Laffoley's triptychThe Divine Comedy, 1972-75, is on view in the exhibition Lecturas del Averno, curated by Gonzalo Pernas, at the Casa del Lector, Madrid, from April to September 2013.
Casa del Lector (Matadero Madrid)
Paseo de la Chopera, 14
28045 Madrid
Spain
casalector.fundaciongsr.com
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Liselot van der Heijden
Bloomfield Avenue Hotline
April 4, 2013
Congratulations to Liselot van der Heijden and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky on winning the first annual Bloomfield Avenue Prize, a joint initiative of the Montclair Art Museum and Bloomfield College, for The Bloomfield Avenue Hotline!
The Prize is awarded for public art projects that bridge the two campuses physically, symbolically, or both. One booth is installed at the College in the College Library and one at the Museum in Lehman Court, the Museum’s main entrance hall. The user can pick up the phone to hear pre-recorded messages based on conversations the artists have had with members from each community. The user will also have the opportunity to leave messages that can be heard by others when using the phone. The messages become a portrait of the other location, creating an exchange of perspectives: MAM visitors can hear thoughts from Bloomfield residents, while BC visitors can hear from their neighbors in Montclair. The exhibit will run through June 16, 2013.
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Muntadas at the Vancouver Art Gallery
November 2, 2013
March 23, 2013
Curated by Daina Augaitis
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
Vancouver BC V6Z 2H7
Canada
We are excited to announce that Muntadas: Entre/Between will be traveling to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, on view from November 2, 2013 through February 2, 2014.
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Liselot van der Heijden
Face to Face
March 14, 2013
Kent Fine Art is pleased to announce the representation of Liselot van der Heijden.
Please join us Thursday evening, March 14th, from 6 to 8 p.m. for the opening of van der Heijden's first exhibition with us entitled Face to Face.
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Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer Museum
February 3 - May 19, 2013
February 26, 2013
We are excited to announce Llyn Foulkes' upcoming major retrospective at the Hammer Museum, curated by Ali Subotnick, which will run from February 3 through May 19, 2013.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue including essays by novelist and art critic Jim Lewis, writer Jason Weiss, and curator Ali Subotnick.
Exhibition Walkthrough
Sunday, February 10, 2 pm
Join curator Ali Subotnick for a public walkthrough of the exhibition. Free with museum admission.
Llyn Foulkes and The Machine
Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 pm
Llyn Foulkes performs on his infamous Machine, a one-man apparatus created by the artist featuring horns, cowbells, organ pipes, percussion, and more.
To view Llyn Foulkes' artist page, please click here.
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Paul Laffoley
New York Times Listings
February 22, 2013
Paul Laffoley: ‘The Boston Visionary Cell’ (through March 9) Judging by his mandala-type compositions on usually square canvases, Mr. Laffoley has yet to encounter a system of mystical thought he could not absorb into his own project. Profusely annotated with press-on vinyl letters, his works refer to a dizzying array of mental adventurers from Socrates to the Theosophist charlatan Madame Blavatsky. This show is an excellent introduction to one of the most unusual creative minds of our time. Kent Fine Art, 210 West 11th Avenue, between 24th and 25th Streets, (212) 365-9500, kentfineart.net. (Ken Johnson)
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Violin Spectacular
February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013
Please join us
VIOLIN SPECTACULAR
Organized by Transit
Thursday, February 21st
7 to 9 p.m.
Free (donations welcome)
RSVP on Facebook
transitnewmusic.com
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Pablo Helguera
February 14, 2013
We are delighted to announce the representation of Pablo Helguera.
To view his Artist page, please click here.
Pablo Helguera's website
Paul Laffoley: Visionary Art Unstuck
Hyperallergic
February 5, 2013
VISIONARY ART UNSTUCK IN TIME TO DIAGRAM THE METAPHYSICS OF THE UNIVERSE
by Allison Meier on February 5, 2013
Most artists wouldn’t take on the staggering task of illustrating the end of the universe for their first major work, but then, most artists aren’t as driven in capturing the cosmic as Paul Laffoley. It was back in 1965 when he embarked on his artistic journey of diagramming the mystical and transcendental, starting with “The Kali-Yuga: The End of the Universe at 424826 A.D.,” a painting involving Hindu cosmology and symbolism of the end of the cycle of time. Earlier in the decade he’d studied classics, philosophy, and art history at Brown University and then architecture at Harvard (he was later involved with Minoru Yamasaki’s designs for the World Trade Center), and he worked for a time in the studio of the dimensionally experimental artist and architect Frederick Kiesler. But it was in Boston that the Massachusetts-born Laffoley would find his focus, creating intensely mapped paintings of sacred, spiritual, and scientific processes.
In 1971, Laffoley established a nonprofit called the Boston Visionary Cell, operated out of a room in a downtown Boston office building, which also doubled as his home. It was formed as a sort of artist’s guild to promote this “visionary art,” a genre grouping together mostly self-taught artists who concentrate on inner perception. Paul Laffoley: The Boston Visionary Cell at Kent Fine Art is the first to delve into this mission in the context of Laffoley’s career in visualizing the intangible...
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Pablo Helguera at the Henry Art Gallery
January 26 - May 9, 2013
February 1, 2013
Pablo Helguera in Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
January 26 - May 9, 2013
Curated by Luis Croquer with assistance from Merith Bennett
Pablo Helguera: An Evening of Endingness
Friday, February 1st
7 to 8 p.m.
Stroum Gallery
“_Endingness_ is the level of consciousness we acquire of a certain reality just in the moment when this reality is about to extinguish.” – Pablo Helguera
In conjunction with the exhibition Now Here is Also Nowhere: Part II the Henry will present a performance of Pablo Helguera’s Endingness, a composition for chamber orchestra designed to be performed together with the last movement of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Farewell symphony. This performance is but one component of Helguera’s three-part work, on view in the exhibition, and consists of three interrelated elements: a musical composition, a reconfigurable sculpture made of framed beeswax and an essay exploring themes of mortality, memory, art, and endings.
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Llyn Foulkes
Wall Street Journal
February 1, 2013
AT 78, A LOS ANGELES ARTIST GOES VIRAL
Arts and Entertainment | D9
by Ellen Gameran
Imagine Mickey Mouse visiting what looks like hell on earth—he might be staring across a dead wasteland, holding a rifle near a shriveled-up cat carcass or crawling out of Walt Disney's forehead.
This is the universe according to Llyn Foulkes, a 78-year-old Los Angeles artist who has been angling for a fight for most of his career, whether he's tweaking a corporation or railing against an art establishment that has embraced him one minute and ignored him the next.
On Sunday, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is opening the largest-ever retrospective of Mr. Foulkes's work. The roughly 150 pieces on display range from early paintings charred with black tar to midcareer portraits of bloody heads to more recent works using wood, paste and found objects in surreal montages...
To view Llyn Foulkes' artist page, please click here.
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Political Advertisement VIII, 1952-2012
Muntadas & Marshall Reese
January 24, 2013
Film Screening and Discussion
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12 Street
Free Admission
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Paul Laffoley: The Boston Visionary Cell
The New York Times
January 18, 2013
By KEN JOHNSON
"Mr. Laffoley’s works may seem impenetrable, but they are not nonsensical. They limn a richly provocative cartography of consciousness itself and its heretofore under-realized possibilities. This show of works dating from the early ’60s to last year is an excellent introduction to one of the most unusual creative minds of our time."
A version of this review appeared in print on January 18, 2013, on page C31 of the New York edition with the headline: Paul Laffoley: ‘The Boston Visionary Cell’.
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John Brill and Dorothea Tanning
February 2, 2013
January 15, 2013
NEVERMORE
February 2 - March 10, 2013
Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 2, 6-8 PM
"Nevermore" imagines Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” a classic of American dark romanticism. Unlike his puritanical predecessors or Transcendentalists peers, Poe ventured toward the dark recesses of the human mind, and the view that human existence is burdened, if not defined, by longing, sin, and sorrow, and the desire to simultaneously remember and repress the past...
To view John Brill's artist page, please click here.
To view Dorothea Tanning's artist page, please click here.
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Dennis Adams' Malraux's Shoes
Screening and Artist Talk
January 14, 2013
DENNIS ADAMS: MALRAUX'S SHOES, 2012
Sunday, February 3 @ 2:30 PM
transmediale 2013
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt - Theatersaal
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
D-10557 Berlin
In his new video work, Malraux’s Shoes, Dennis Adams masquerades as André Malraux (1901–1976), the French writer, adventurer, Resistance fighter, cultural provocateur, art theorist, orator, statesman, and passionate archivist of the world history of art...
To view Dennis Adams' artist page, please click here.
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Llyn Foulkes
The New York Times
December 23, 2012
"We sometimes seek the strange, realizing that in dislocation we find ourselves. Llyn Foulkes, a retrospective that opens Feb. 3 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, doesn't lack for strangeness. The works include In Memory o St. Vincent School (1960), with its oil charred wood and plasticized ashes on a blackboard, and Who's on Third? (1971-73)."
To view Llyn Foulkes' artist page, please click here.
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Peter Plagens reviews Irving Petlin: Storms (After Redon)
WSJ
December 8, 2012
BOLD PERCEPTIONS IN COLOR
Irving Petlin: 'Storms: After Redon'
Kent Fine Art - 210 Eleventh Avenue, Second Floor
Through Dec. 21
"The poetic atmosphere permeating the show...elevates it to the realm of—to invoke the art-world word of the moment—amazing. Mr. Petlin's gorgeous show, in other words, amounts to much more than the sum of its beautiful parts."
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Irving Petlin and La Maison du Pastel
New Documentary (coming soon!)
November 27, 2012
Irving Petlin has frequented La Maison du Pastel in Paris since the early 1960s. The history of the Roché family and La Maison du Pastel goes back to the nineteenth century, when Henri Roché took over La Maison du Pastel and began developing the sumptuous range of Roché colors. Roché's clientele included such masters as Edgar Degas and James Whistler. Since then, the Roché family has continued to make their extraordinary pastels entirely by hand...
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Benefit Concert for Wild Shore Festival for New Music
November 17, 2012
Benefit Concert for Wild Shore Festival for New Music
Saturday, November 17, 6-9 pm
$25 donation ticket available at the door
Payable by cash, card and check (all tax deductible)
Last admittance at 8:15 pm
Performances
6 pm - Dane Johansen on cello
7pm - Caitlin Warbelow on Celtic fiddle
8 pm - REDSHIFT
Jeffrey Anderle on clarinet
Rose Bellini on cello
Kate Campbell on piano
Andie Springer on violin
and Katie Cox on flute
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After the storm, interview with Douglas Walla
Art Media Agency Newsletter
November 9, 2012
After hurricane Sandy passed through New York City, Art Media Agency interviewed Douglas Walla, founder of the Kent Fine Art Gallery, located in Chelsea, the devastated artistic district. He shares his views on the current state of New York artistic scene and the art market after the catastrophe.
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UPDATE
Letter from Kent Fine Art
November 6, 2012
Dear Friends,
Our hearts go out to our colleagues, neighbors, fellow New Yorkers, and all who have suffered terrible losses in Hurricane Sandy.
We are grateful to be able to reopen the gallery as of Wednesday, November 7. Our hours are 10:00 to 6:00, Tuesday through Saturday. Our current exhibition is Irving Petlin: Storms (After Redon), which will be on view until December 21.
With so many in Chelsea still struggling, we are happy to offer at the very least a cup of coffee, a place to sit and rest, and a place to charge a phone.
Sincerely,
Doug Walla, Jeanne Marie Wasilik, Asja Gleeson, and Maia Peck
MUNTADAS: Entre/Between
October 16, 2012 - January 20, 2013
October 16, 2012
Curated by Daina Augaitis
Jeu de Paume
Paris
Jeu de Paume organizes a major exhibition by the internationally recognized artist Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942), one of the early practitioners of conceptual and media art.
The show will survey Muntadas' prolific career, from the seventies to present days. His art practice spans four decades, in which he has utilized actions, video, photography, multi-media installations, publications, public art, the internet, radio and other media to address key political and social issues of our time. Incorporating in-depth research and astute readings of cultural situations, his incisive works have addressed ideas such as the relationship between public and private, the flows of information along the media landscape, and the inherent power of architecture and other social frameworks.
This exhibition will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, in spring 2013. It was previously shown at the Reina Sofía Art Centre, Madrid, the Bronx Museum, New York, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
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"Charles Gaines: In the Shadows of Numbers"
September 4 - October 21, 2012
September 15, 2012
In the Shadow of Numbers:
Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975-2012
Pomona College Museum of Art
33 N. College Avenue, Claremont, CA
Opening: Saturday, September 15, 4-6 pm
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John Brill in "Against the Specialist"
September 13, 2012 - January 6, 2013
September 13, 2012
Curated by Eva Fischer
Against the Specialist:
Contemporary References to Arnold Schnoenberg in Image and Sound
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 E. 52nd St., First Floor
New York, NY 10022
Opening: Wednesday, September 12, 6-8 pm
Image: John Brill, Self-portrait, Lodi, NJ, 1987
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Antoni Muntadas in "Ruptures"
September 4 - October 13, 2012
September 4, 2012
Curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam
RUPTURES: Forms of Public Protest
41 Cooper Gallery
41 Cooper Square, Lower Level 1
(Entrance on Third Avenue and E 7 Street)
New York, NY 10003
Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 6-8 pm
Image: Antoni Muntadas, Tout va bien, 2003
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Emily Prince in "Drawn from Photography"
June 21 - August 19, 2012
June 21, 2012
Curated by Claire Gillman, The Drawing Center
Drawn from Photography
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Opening Event: June 21, 5-7:30pm
This group exhibition focuses on a growing trend within drawing: the meticulous translation of images from photographs and photo-based media. Concentrating on instances of social and political transformation, these thirteen contemporary artists present a novel approach to the drawn medium. In their hands, drawing as rote translation signals a desire for agency coupled with a sense of the distance between “reality out there” and our attempts to comprehend or transform it. Drawn from Photography is curated by Claire Gilman and organized by The Drawing Center, New York. Catalogue available
Detail from Emily Prince's American servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but Not Including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans), executed January 2004 - present.
Llyn Foulkes in dOCUMENTA (13)
June 9 - September 16, 2012
June 9, 2012
dOCUMENTA(13)
Kassel, Germany
Kent Fine Art is excited to announce the participation of Llyn Foulkes in Documenta 13. On view will be his mixed media works The Lost Frontier, 1997-2005, and The Awakening, 1995-2012.
Foulkes will also be performing live on his self-made instrument "The Machine." - Watch video
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New Website
KentFineArt.net
June 5, 2012
Kent Fine Art is excited to announce the launch of our brand new website KentFineArt.net.
The site features a new homepage design to get visitors acquainted with the most up-to-date gallery information as well as redesigned Artists, Exhibitions, Modern Masters, Publications, Curatorial Projects and Gallery sections.
We will continually add more information, so please check back frequently for our latest gallery news.
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Heide Fasnacht
Tang Museum and Weatherspoon Art Museum
June 2, 2012
Hearing Pictures
Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
May 31 - December 30, 2012
Organized by Megan Hyde
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Close Relations and A Few Black Sheep: Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallery
June 2 – September 23, 2012
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Cutting Losses
UNC Chapel Hill - John and June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
October 17 - November 21, 2012
Curated by Susanne Slavick
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Out of Rubble
Bowling Green University Galleries, OH
September 7 - October 7, 2012
Curated by Susanne Slavick
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Paul Laffoley in "Towards a Warm Math"
April 22 - June 3, 2012
April 22, 2012
Curated by Chris Wiley
On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
"Some works, like The Sexuality of Robots (2009), explore more modest aspects of Laffoley's personal scholarship. Arranged as a taxonomy of sexualized homunculi in popular culture and art history—from the voluptuous forms of ancient fertility sculptures to the chiseled physique of Roboco —Laffoley connects the (sexualized) animation of these almost-‐human forms to the Tibetan concept of Tulpa, or thought-‐form, which posits that the mind, as the creator of the world of appearances, has the power to call otherwise non-‐existent beings to life."
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