THE MUSEUM IMAGINED

curated by
LILLY WEI

OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, October 15, 6-8 pm

at

DANESE COREY
511 W 22ND St. NYC

work by:

Amar Bakshi, Stephen Dean, Anne Deleporte, Ellen Harvey, Reuven Israel + Joshua Neustein, Serkan Ozkaya, Jessica Segall

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Re:Start | Group Exhibition | Braverman Gallery Anniversary Celebration

Braverman Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary – inviting you to view early works by the gallery's artists. To mark the event, we chose to exhibit projects that first caught our attention, drawing us to work with each artist individually. At first glance the projects seem different than the artists' current practice; yet, they play as indicators to either style, content or medium choices made in the following years. While some works were on display in recent years, others are now shown for the first time. 
As part of the exhibition, the gallery will expose new works by artists now represented by the gallery. 

Participating artists include Anna Yam, Anton Ginzburg, Biljana Djurdjevic, Dana Levy, David Adika, Gilad Ratman, Hila Karabelnikov, Ilit Azoulay, Jacob Mishori, Katharina Gaenssler, Nezaket Ekici, Nira Pereg, Noa Gur, Ohad Matalon, Oren Eliav, Reuven Israel, Robin Rhode, Shahar Marcus and Shana Moulton.

Curated by Adi Gura

Domestic Ideals: Nostalgia and the Home at Lesley Heller workspace

A-CHAN, Katya Grokhovsky, Joan Linder, Paul Loughney, Reuven Israel, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Melissa Murray, Marcie Revens.

Co-curated by Yan Gi Cheng and Peter Gynd.

Opening reception: February 8, 2015, 6-8pm
54 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002

“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but the space within to be lived in” - Lao Tse

The home is more than a building, it forms a corporeal arena from which the body, no matter how transitory, can experience tangible emotional sustenance. We unpack ourselves into the interior spaces of our homes and link our identities to its geography. As was stated in Bachelards book ‘Poetics of Space’, the home is an imaginary realm in which architectural structures are metaphors of emotional states defining selfhood. Home thus not only embodies the broader contextual realities of a physical domestic space, but also serves to represent and express our experiences and define our memories.

The work brought together in this exhibition presents a narrative of Home as seen through a lens of our physical and metaphorical connection to a space. The eight artists presented: A-CHAN, Katya Grokhovsky, Reuven Israel, Joan Linder, Paul Loughney, Melissa Murray, Ryan Sarah Murphy, and Marcie Revens, engage this theme through examining the culturally central role the home plays as staging ground in economic forces and gender relations, and the defining role which domestic space plays in the cognitive relationship we have with our bodies.

These works present and explore domesticity not only within the confines of an architectural structure and the constitutions of that space, but also through the geopolitics which define ones belonging to a given city, social group or nation. Each artist thereby unveils the psychological and physical adherence the body has to the materiality of domestic space, while simultaneously drawing on the connections and dislocations the home has with ones memory of it.

SBM11, 2014 
Copper and coated steel rod, painted MDF and wood, 96 x 8 x 8 inches 

Minimal Standard Model at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Museum Presents Itself
Israeli Art from the Museum Collection

Opening reception: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 8PM

Opening date: Friday 23 January 2015
Closing date: Show Has No Closing Date

Curator: Ellen Ginton

The new display holds three chapters: Pioneering and National Modernism presents Modernism-influenced art made in pre-state Israel and in its early years; Post-Zionist Post-Minimalism: Internationality and Subjectivity—art from the 1970s to 1999, relating to the geometric and personal; and Early 21st Century: Reductivism and Redundancy—art with an emphasis on Minimalism and Maximalism; a subchapter is dedicated to Post-Modernism—Feminism, presenting works by the first decisive generation of women artists from the 1970s.

December 3 - 7, 2014 Reuven Israel @ Untitled Miami, Booth #C07

www.art-untitled.com with Fridman Gallery
‪#‎untitled2014‬
 

Artist in conversation with Gregory Volk & Catalog Launch

Friday, November 21, 6pm @ Fridman Gallery
Multipolarity exhibition catalog with introductory essays by Gregory Volk and Graham Harman.

To quote Volk’s essay: 

I was riveted by this hyper-precise sculpture with a machine made look. While austere, it is also lush and vibrational and has a distinct air of the marvelous. Not exactly abstract, but also not exactly representational, this sculpture is peculiarly communicative and also seems suffused with potent, invisible energies, with matters of the inner life, including keen thoughts and emotions, and with questions of our relationship with the world, nature, society, technology, history, and the cosmos.

‘Recent & Relevant’ Rudy Cremonini / Reuven Israel @Spazio522 Chelsea

Curator: Sarah Crown

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Recent & Relevant is a two-person exhibition investigating the universe of presence and absence, sculptural continuity and ephemeral existence. Through recent paintings and pertinent drawings by emerging artists Rudy Cremonini and Reuven Israel.

The title of the exhibition, Recent & Relevant, interprets deeper concepts than the true sense of the words. Recent & Relevant showcases the latest creations of Cremonini and recent works by Israel, and decodes the physical and temporal aspects that exist under the surface of both series of works. The apparent visual contrast, gives different techniques and diverse subjects, revealing a metaphysical dialogue on the existence of subjects, objects and our lives.

Cremonini’s paintings are inhabited by an atmosphere of suspended time. The subjects are almost anonymous and are not well defined due to large, thick and fast strokes. They appear as surprised, then frozen in a moment of action of their daily lives. The scenes, captured from the memory and the artist’s imagination, have a touch of the surreal. They are quite indefinable, and hide something that fascinates and attracts the viewer, who is often sucked into the stage.

On the opposite, there are the watercolor drawings by Israel: Worlds of well-defined, precise and articulated objects. Artifacts that resemble elements of mechanics, although they do not exist as such in reality. Floating objects in an imaginary space. A carousel of stars/sculptures; an unusual cosmos, yet so familiar. The temporal aspect is facing the unknown, the infinite. There is no connotation that describes a precise moment, infinity reins the works.

Recent & Relevant compares the seemingly distant and different works of both artists, and detects how the presence/absence of precise visual representations and references, stimulate in the spectator a vivid imagination and creates a unique dialogue on the ephemeral existence of the subject/object of art and life.

SPOTLIGHT: Reuven Israel / Wasserman Projects

Reuven Israel's sculptural work has an air of unreality. Outlining symbols of shared memories they or not abstractions of specific objects but sculptures thriving for autonomy as unique things. Encountering these objects evokes a range of associations often related to furniture, practical science, religious artifacts, architecture and symbols of power.

The sculptures are crafted individually mainly from wood and paint adopting features in shape and surface that give the impression of metal or plastic. Meticulously fabricated they may easily confuse a viewer to think of them as objects out of an assembly line. Each body of work is accompanied by a series of watercolor drawings. On large sheets of paper, rendered sculptures float on dark backgrounds determining sets of different relationships between shapes in imaginary form, wait and perspective.