Broadway Gallery NYC

The Shining Mantis: Kangarok VIII, The Kneon Knives are Sharp On Broadway
Recessive Traits—In the Absence of the Dominant Element
Politics, Practices and Emotions

The Shining Mantis: Kangarok VIII, The Kneon Knives are Sharp On Broadway

The Shining Mantis: Kangarok VIII, The Kneon Knives are Sharp On Broadway
November 1st - 15th, 2009, opening Thursday, November 5th, 6 to 8pm.

The Shining Mantis is a Brooklyn base collaboration of Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion. The primary works done by the duo are the legendary battle drawings known simply as “Kangarok”. This is a fusion of the unnamable presence of the Mephistophelic Kangaroo, and Ragnarok, the Nordic apocalypse.

“Our work is about antagonistic collaboration: battle drawings. We fight each other through spontaneous bursts of imagination. These drawings most often take the form of large-scale chalk drawings, done directly onto the wall. We often execute these drawing as a live performance.

For their exhibition at the Broadway Gallery show, The Shining Mantis will expand our usual repertoire to include two video monitors facing the entrance to the gallery, depicting a Praying Mantis Warrior and a Demon Kangaroo (these would be Ernest and Mike in masks), the primary enemies of the Kangarok Saga, screaming taunts at each other. The drawing (which will be done in chalk) will be installed on sheets of black paper that would be cut to fit the walls and other, more oddly shaped, spaces in the gallery, as well as on free-standing sculptural elements positioned around the gallery.

Recessive Traits—In the Absence of the Dominant Element

Recessive Traits—In the Absence of the Dominant Element
November 2nd to 30th, 2009, opening reception: Thursday, November 5th, 2009, 6 - 8 pm.

A Best of New York Project by Broadway Gallery, Recessive Traits exhibits photographs that lack information derived from facial expressions—the dominant element that delivers the most direct message in a photograph. In the absence of this dominant element, the photograph’s recessive traits are unmasked and deeper meanings emerge. The selected photographs involve a range of subjects, from figurative images, to urban landscape, to still‐life objects. They are united in demanding that the viewers abandon traditional modes of interpretation to derive their meaning. The group show contains two parts. Each part features the works of 10‐12 artists. The artists include both award‐winning and emerging photographers. In part I, we present the works of Jessica Bruah, Ivy Finkelstein, Heungman, Gabriela Herman, Katie Humphries, Christina Kerns, Kotaro Okada, Ahndraya Parlato, and Nat Ward. In part II, we present the works of Magda Biernat, Natalie Chan, Marten Elder! , Katherine Finkelstein, Sigurj.n Gu.j.nsson, William Knipscher, Savanna Sakry, Kelly Shimoda, Elizabeth Weinberg and Carl Wooley.

Politics, Practices, and Emotions

Politics, Practices, and Emotions
October 16th - November 15th, 2009, receptions Thursday, October 22nd, 6 to 8pm and Thursday, November 5th, 6 to 8pm.

Darren Jones, Joseph Farbrook, Andrea Cucchi, Jordi Aguilar, Dilek Ozmen, Milena Jovicevic Popovic, Igor Zaytsev, and Maria Luisa Imperiali

Politics, Practices and Emotions is a group exhibition curated by Basak Malone that focuses on the construction, and deconstruction of communication. In this multidisciplinary show, the creative act is explored through a variety of sources, from landscape and body, to sexuality and gender. The timeless subject of practice is characterized in Politics, Practices and Emotions—from the emotion art can create, to the conceptual and theoretical act of the artists vision. The exhibition explores unseen territories within contemporary art, juxtaposing Formalism, biography, and psychoanalysis, the works explore how personal politics help us dig deeper into our own selves, allowing us to know ourselves better and to find the answers within us. In the same way artists take time to reflect and respond to their medium or environment, the viewer will also. With this collection of artists Malone shows us how wonderful it is to explore the art of both emotion a! nd creation.