WARD SHELLEY "Unreliable Narrator" Gallery 1 & 2
DATES | 17 February – 18 March 2012
LOCATION | Pierogi @ 177 North 9th St. (between Bedford & Driggs Aves)
DIRECTIONS | Take the L train to Bedford Ave stop. Walk 2 blocks to N. 9th St.
www.pierogi2000.com
PRESS RELEASE
Unreliable Narrator is about believers. In this exhibition of timeline paintings, Ward Shelley proposes that believers are people who depend on a collection of narratives to explain the world around them.
Facts are like dots on a graph. The narrative is the curve that connects them, that gives isolated data points meaning, and gives meaning shape. This graphical epistemology emerges naturally from the way Shelley creates timelines, which he considers pictures of narratives.
As actors in the world, according to Shelley, we need a world view, and a world view requires some construction. Narratives are what we construct — they are the basic building blocks for organizing our outlook and interpreting the world. Yet they are shaped more by belief than by fact.
We are all believers; it seems there is no way around it. But the voice in our head is that of an unreliable narrator.
To explore the structure of narrative, half of Shelley's paintings are being shown naked, stripped of the text. Words are like magnets for the eyes and in Shelley's text-laden images, they crowd to the front of the viewer's attention to tell the story. Beneath is a structure — and this structure is also information, as well as informational architecture. Is there a necessary structure to narrative?
We use different parts of our brains for reading and looking. Is it possible that legible graphics, which utilize very conventional forms, rely on some pre-existing structure for thought, a pre-existing structure not unlike the innate cognitive structures in the brain that linguists believe precedes language and make it possible? This exhibition suggests that the shapes of information carry messages.
The subjects of the works included in this exhibition range from teenagers and the history of science fiction, to a diagram of the fluxus movement, among others. This will be Shelley’s fifth one-person exhibition at Pierogi. His performance, installation, and timeline works have been shown widely in Europe and the US. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and residency fellowships including the Priz de Rome and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.
Pierogi Gallery presents:
Tony Fitzpatrick's STATIONS LOST at The BOILER
October 20 through November 6, 2011
Performance Schedule: Thurs & Fri 8pm; Sat, two performances 6 & 9pm; Sun 7pm
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Tony and Stan took a journey to find the dark heart of America. Stan went to Cleveland.
Tony took a detour…to Istanbul. This is their story.
From America’s border-towns to Istanbul’s Taksim Square, Station’s Lost is the story of two friends, Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein, and their commonalities and divergent paths in an ever-expanding world. Tony takes us through his childhood as a rebellious Catholic schoolboy obsessed with superheroes, reading MAD Magazine, and meeting Chester Gould through his adult understanding of the superhero mythos that leads him to strike out in search of the everyday superhero in the world via a journey to Istanbul.
Tony is a visual artist, poet, actor, playwright, and raconteur—a modern-day Renaissance man. This is his second play, following "This Train," and features Tony and his sidekick Stan Klein, with live musical accompaniment. Adapted and directed by Ann Filmer.
This will be a three-week run of Tony's second theatrical performance
with five performances per week (Thursday through Sunday) beginning October 20
following his recent successful run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
For tickets contact Pierogi at 718.599.2144 / info@pierogi2000.com
Location: The BOILER 191 N. 14th St. Brooklyn, NY 11211
Bridge-Studio in construction Fall 2010 Click here to view more photos of this project at hanrahanmeyers.com
A centered breezeway that connects two private studio spaces features a fireplace and looks out toward the Delaware River Click here to view more photos of this project at hanrahanmeyers.com
Bridge-Studio is a new artist studio building designed for artist couple Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson. Bridge-Studio will house a painting studio for Joe on the East side, and a writing studio for Susan on the west. Bridge-Studio features a breezeway in the center, between the two studios, with an outdoor fireplace. The new studio is entered by walking up a bridge, into the open breezeway, overlooking the Delaware River, approximately 100 feet below the edge of the site.
The outdoor fireplace hearth houses a flue for a second fireplace in Susan's writing studio, and for a third fireplace, in the open outdoor area below the 'Bridge'. In addition to producing their own bodies of work, Joe and Susan own Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg, New York, and regularly entertain artists from their New York gallery at their home in Pennsylvania. The couple's desire for an appropriate setting to entertain artist friends created part of the program for the new studio building.
Bridge-Studio: in construction August 2010 click here to see more of Bridge-Studio at www.hanrahanmeyers.com. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Bridge-Studio is a new artist studio building designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) for artist couple Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson. Bridge-Studio will house a painting studio for Joe on the East side, and a writing studio for Susan on the west. Bridge-Studio features a breezeway in the center, between the two studios, with an outdoor fireplace. The new studio is entered by walking up a bridge, into the open breezeway, overlooking the Delaware River, approximately 100 feet below the edge of the site.
Amhrein Swenson Bridge-Studio: Fireplace facing breezway, looking toward Delaware River. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Amhrein Swenson Bridge-Studio: looking toward masonry fireplace wall, inside Studio. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Click here to see more of Bridge-Studio at www.hanrahanmeyers.com
New York architects hanrahan Meyers (hMa) are pleased to present construction photographs of their new Amrhein-Swenson studio, or 'Bridge-Studio'. Bridge-Studio is a new artist studio building designed for artist couple Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson. Bridge-Studio has a painting studio for Joe on the East side, and a writing studio for Susan on the west. There is an open breezeway in the center, between the two studios, with its own outdoor fireplace. Both artist studios also have fireplaces. Bridge House is entered by walking up a bridge, into the open breezeway, overlooking the Delaware River, approximately 100 feet below the edge of the site.
front view : Bridge-Studio in construction: Victoria Meyers architect and Thomas Hanrahan architect, of hanrahan Meyers architects
The outdoor filreplace hearth, facing the breezeway, houses a flue for a second fireplace in Susan's writing studio, and for a third fireplace, in the open outdoor area below the 'Bridge'. In addition to producing their own bodies of work, Joe and Susan own Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg, New York, and regularly entertain artists from their New York gallery at their home in Pennsylvania. The couple's desire for an appropriate setting to entertain artist friends created part of the program for the new studio building. For more about 'Bridge-Studio', visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, under 'New and in Progress'.
Bridge-Studio by hanrahan Meyers architects : in construction January 2010, Victoria Meyers architect and Thomas Hanrahan architect: Contemporary Residential architecture
view through breezeway looking out toward the Delaware River: Victoria Meyers architect and Thomas Hanrahan architect: Contemporary residential architecture