Press Release is below…

Jef’s show has been amazing.  Thank you for all that have come to see this collection of immense creativity.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AD HOC ART IS PLEASED TO PRESENT JEF AEROSOL’S “ALL SHOOK UP”, THE ARTIST’S NYC DEBUT, OPENING JANUARY 29TH.

With support from Brooklyn Street Art and Eastern District.

For more information please contact:
Email: info@adhocart.org; Telephone: 917.602.2153; Web: www.adhocart.org

For an online version of this document and pictures to download, click HERE: (http://mim.io/3a6f1)

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All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol
January 29 – February 21, 2010
Opening Reception – Friday, January 29, 2010, 6-10pm
Gallery Hours: Thurs & Fri: 4pm-8pm; Sat & Sun: noon-8pm
Ad Hoc Art @ 43 Bogart Street/Eastern District, Brooklyn, New York 11206
(via subway take the “L” Train to the Morgan Avenue Station)

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Ad Hoc Art presents international stencil master Jef Aerosol in New York City for “All Shook Up”, a stunning show of cultural icons by a Street Artist with 30 years in the game.  The show with Ad Hoc Art, a gallery widely regarded as one of Street Art’s polestars, features brand new stenciled works as well as the now-classic pieces that have made Jef Aerosol’s name itself iconic; on paper, wood, and found objects.
A true originator who helped spark what is now known as “Street Art” when he sprayed his first stencil series across the city of Tours, France one night in 1982, the self-taught Aerosol has continuously rocked the streets with his oversized portraits and helped define a new public art nomenclature with other French artists like Blek Le Rat, Miss Tic, and Speedy Graphito.
Steadily from the ’80s to the ’10s Aerosol has cut and sprayed stunning portraits of his heroes; cultural icons who stand undiminished by the hype. They connect directly with the masses and shake public opinion with humor and provocation; Strummer, Cash, Vicious, Hendrix, Bowie, Bardot, Cobain, Lennon, Smith, Jagger – all brainy agitators and vixens cut and sprayed in stark layers of black, grey and white. And each with Aerosol’s signature hot red arrows affixed nearby for exclamation.
In Street Art and in the gallery, Aerosol has not purely focused on those well-known personages. Among the faces you’ll find a number of self-portraits and portrayals of the more anonymous  among us such as those living and working in the streets.
Like the best photographers, Aerosol catches the instant of truth in his portraits, and reveals a universal humanity in each subject. “In my work I love to call up my feelings and emotions to honor these modern day heroes who have fed my life with their music, art and ideas. This new show is a powerful and vivid collection of these inspirations that I am really excited to bring to New York for the first time,” Jef Aerosol.
Three decades of getting up on walls in cities including Paris, London, Lisbon, Chicago, New York, Bejing, Venice, Amsterdam, Rome, Zurich, Berlin, Dublin, and Tokyo have given him all the “street cred” Jef Aerosol will ever need.  Sighted in numerous books and by authors like Tristan Manco (Stencil Graffiti, Street Logos), blogs like Wooster Collective and Brooklyn Street Art, and newspapers like The New York Times as one of the lynchpins in the stencil art movement that came to be called “street art”, Jef Aerosol’s work has become a perennial favorite of collectors. His work resides in hundreds of private collections, has exhibited in numerous galleries in Europe,
the U.S. and Australia (list below), and is regularly auctioned with Bonhams (London, New-York), Artcurial (Paris), Drouot (Paris), and Dreweats (London).
In 2007 Aerosol published a gallery of portraits in VIP Very Important Pochoirs (éditions Alternatives, Paris, 2007).  Galleries where the work of Jef Aerosol has been shown include: Galerie Brugier-Rigail (Paris), Galerie Raison d’Art (Lille), Signal Gallery (London), Zozimus Gallery (Dublin), Art Partner Galerie (Brussels), Galerie Anne Vignial (Paris), Galerie Storme (Lille), Galerie Onega (Paris), Carmichael Gallery (Los Angeles), ATM Gallery (Berlin), and Famous When Dead Gallery  (Melbourne).
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Regardless of what holiday, if any, you are celebrating, we can all rejoice in M-City’s gift to New York!  We couldn’t believe our eyes, but it was true…  M-City is an abominable force of love and creativity wrapped up in a smile!  Ad Hoc Art is thrilled to showcase Poland-based M-City’s American and New York City debut with an unbelievable wall mural. You can view this testament of awesomeness at 1108 30th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11102

- In January, Jef Aerosol!

Jef Aerosol is one of the defining movers and shakers in the worlds of stencil and street.  After a solid string of art shows and activities, Ad Hoc Art is thrilled to bring him to New York City with a solo exhibit opening Friday, January 29th running until Sunday, February 21st, 2010.

The exhibition is located at 43 Bogart Street/ED, next door to Ad Hoc’s previous 49 Bogart Street location.

More details to come.

The Lowdown:

Jef Aerosol is a legend of the Street Art. He started stencilling in 1982 in France. With other French artists like Blek Le Rat and Miss Tic, he has pioneered a new way of artistic expression – breaking the limits of gallery spaces and canvas format. Streets have become a free and open exhibition arena. Artists connect directly with the masses and shape public opinion with humour and provocation.

Jef Aerosol initially explored ‘copy-art’ in the late 70s, i.e. creating collages and distortions of photos using all the possibilities of a photocopier. He gradually moved to stencils, influenced by ideas and atmospheres put forward by 70s-80s underground rock bands. Characters are the focal point of Jef Aerosol’s art. Whether they are cultural icons or anonymous people, their attitudes carry a genuine emotion, magnified by texture effects, contrasted colours and provoking wording. Jef Aerosol masters the use of stencil. Like the best photographers, he can catch the truth of an instant to reveal its universality.

Jef lives and works in Lille. His art and its messages get through to people in a unique way.  His work is in private collections around the world and can be seen on the walls of cities like Paris, London, Lisbon and Chicago, New York and Bejing.  He has been exhibited in numerous galleries and has participated to various art street festivals internationally.

“Jef Aerosol’s work is as eclectic as it is original and very personal. It makes me feel good…isn’t that what art is supposed to do.” Chris Wilson, Musician “Flamin’ Groovies”

On his work: “Depending on the stencil and where it is to be placed (in or outdoors) I usually use spray paint but sometime use sponge and brush. Some of my stencils are single layered, other have up to 4 layers. The outdoor ones tend to be life size but in my canvas work I favour close ups, along with colour and texture effects.  I have tried, with pictures and words to call forth memories, emotions, feelings, joy and sadness to honour those who have fed my life with their music, words, art works, movies, ideas and ideals.” – Jef Aerosol.

Garrison Buxton

info@adhocart.org

917.602.2153

For Immediate Release:

BROOKLYN ARTISTS TAKE OVER MIAMI DURING ART BASEL

AD HOC ART (BROOKLYN, NY) BRINGS THE BEST OF BROOKLYN TO THE HEART OF MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT

December 3, 2009 at 7PM -Opening Night Reception with Artists

Complimentary Beverages provided by Amstel Light

Miami, FL – In an era where being from just “the City” doesn’t cut it, Brooklyn, New York has quickly become the newest epicenter for emerging arts and culture for not only the five boroughs but rather for the global audience. And as the international art world descends on Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach, the best of what Brooklyn has to offer will collectively congregate in the heart of the Miami Design District.

Ad Hoc Art brings you over 40 artists ranging from all mediums and styles that best represent the aesthetics and vision of the Brooklyn art scene. This comprehensive showcase will not only emphasize the visionary works of today’s biggest street artists such as The London Police, Lady Pink, Poster Boy and Skewville, but will highlight established contemporary artists such as Scott Draves, whose works in new media has been at the forefront of both art and technology. BKMIA is also proud to debut Mario Brothers, the latest addition to the Brooklyn street iconoclast whose mixed media collages can be seen on such high-profile publications as V Magazine and Interview.

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With Miami serving as the perfect backdrop for this diverse group of artistry, BKMIA shines the spotlight on the unique alliance between the two cities as well as showcase the similarities of both cultures in relations to the contemporary art world.

BKMIA

Official BKMIA Artists Featured are:

• Avoid Pi

• Buxtonia {Alison & Garrison Buxton}

• Cahbasmn

• Cash4

• Celso

• Cycle

• Dan Taylor

• DarkClouds

• Dennis McNett

• Destroy & Rebuild

• Eastern District Collective

• Ezra Li Eismont

• Faro

• Flying Fortress

• Frank Russo

• Fred Harper

• Gaia

• Imminent Disaster

• Infinity

• Jim Kiernan

• Joe Vaux

• John Breiner

• John Fekner & Don Leicht

• Jonathan Villoch {DEPOE}

• JuseOne

• Keely Brandon

• Keith Haskel

• Kevin Brady

• Lady Pink

• Logik One

• Lucas

• Mario Brothers

• Martin Mazorra & Mike Houston {Cannonball Press}

• Martina Secondo Russo

• Michael Allen

• Mike De Feo

• Molly Crabapple

• Morning Breath

• NohJColey

• Peat Wollaeger

• Peripheral Media Projects

• Pez

• Poster Boy

• Rafel Fuchs

• Robert Steel

• Ronin

• Royce Bannon

• Ryan Doyle and UFO 930

• Scott Draves & The Electric Sheep

• Skewville

• The London Police

• The Senator

• Thundercut

• Tod Seelie

• Uhuru Design

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About the BKMIA Team:

• Garrison Buxton (Principal Curator) is the co-founder of Peripheral Media Projects, Inc. and Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn.

• Alison Buxton (Co-Curator) is the co-founder of Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn.

• Michael Cabrera (Co-Curator) is the owner and founder of Eastern District, Brooklyn.

• Max Pierre (Creative Director) is the owner and founder of AE District, Miami.

Gallery Hours during Art Basel Miami Beach:

• December 3, 2009 | 12PM to 5PM

o Opening Night Party 7PM – 11PM with special performances TBA

• December 4, 2009 | 11AM to 7PM

• December 5, 2009 | 11AM to 7PM

• December 6, 2009 | 11AM to 5PM

o Closing Night Party 7PM – 11PM with special performances TBA

BKMIA | 4040 NE 2^nd Avenue, Suite 103 | Moore Building | Miami, FL 33137 For more on BKMIA, visit www.BKMIA.COM

www.aedistrict.com www.eastern-district.com www.adhocart.org

]]> http://adhocart.org/site/2009/11/28/bkmia-the-best-of-brooklyn-meets-miami-december-3-6/feed/ 0 http://adhocart.org/site/2009/11/13/two-days-till-the-joe-vaux-and-gilbert-oh-show-opening/ http://adhocart.org/site/2009/11/13/two-days-till-the-joe-vaux-and-gilbert-oh-show-opening/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:30:39 +0000 info http://adhocart.org/site/?p=621 (NOV 13th 2009) Ad Hoc Art & Eastern District had an outstanding opening featuring stunning works by Vaux & Oh.  Come see these gems before December 6th.

HOURS: Wednesday through Sunday, noon – 7pm.

Joe Vaux & Gilbert Oh November 13th- December 6th 2009.

Opening Reception November 13th, 6-10pm.
at Eastern District, 43 Bogart Street.

Joe Vaux was born and raised on the east coast, and in 1996 he moved out to Los Angeles to start his career in animation. Vaux been working in animation for 10 years on various shows, painting in his free time. After having several shows in and around LA and the west coast, Vaux will return to the east coast next year for his first feature show in the NYC area. Gilbert Oh wrote his very first cartoon book, drawings and all, when he was six years old. He has never stopped reading cartoon books ever since and probably never will. http://gilbertoh1.blogspot.com/ http://joevaux.com/

Joe Vaux & Gilbert Oh

November 13th- December 6th 2009.
Opening Reception November 13th, 6-10pm.
at Eastern District, 43 Bogart Street.

Joe Vaux was born and raised on the east coast, and in 1996 he moved out to Los Angeles to start his career in animation. Vaux been working in animation for 10 years on various shows, painting in his free time. After having several shows in and around LA and the west coast, Vaux will return to the east coast next year for his first feature show in the NYC area.
Gilbert Oh wrote his very first cartoon book, drawings and all, when he was six years old. He has never stopped reading cartoon books ever since and probably never will.

http://gilbertoh1.blogspot.com/
http://joevaux.com/

On display from November 13th till December 6th.

More details to come!

Buxtonia {Garrison & Alison Buxton} presents Unified Love Movement

Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 2009 / 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 9 – December 5, 2009

Address: Mainsite Gallery / 122 E. Main St / Norman OK 73069

Mainsite Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Oklahoma-born artists Garrison & Alison Buxton. Currently Brooklyn-based, 2010 has the Buxtons embarking on a long-term project featuring an art, design, and living center based on environmental responsibility and ecological sustainability in the Green Mountains of Vermont.  This is Garrison’s second show at Mainsite and Garrison and Alison’s first major installation at the gallery.

Unified Love Movement is the culmination of years of thought, reflection, and observance of our collective existence on our shared home, earth.  For the majority of human existence, our species lived within the constraints of the natural world, in relative harmony with the other earthly inhabitants.  With westernized thought & expansion, colonialization, and the concept of manifest destiny arose the notion that the earth and its resources are here to serve humans, god’s chosen people made in his image, and it is our duty to use the earth’s bounty as we see fit.  Unfortunately for believers in these ideologies, they have been mislead.  Humans can never triumph over nature and its constraints for we are a part of it, one and the same, inextricably entwined.  Since our well being and existence directly correlate with the planet’s well being and its ability to sustain life, it is obviously in our best interest to reprioritize our ideologies, harmonize with nature (and therefore ourselves) and relearn how to live within ecological limits that are healthy and sustainable for the greatest number of life forms, not just our own.

To unravel the complex mental and spiritual knots that tie and bind the perceptions, mindsets and outlooks resulting from one’s cultural conditioning, sometimes many years or even decades are necessary.  By the time one is old enough to realize the duping of one’s consciousness via the charade of our contemporary culture and mass media, breaking free of powerful dogmas steeped in contradictions, exploit, and hypocrisy can be very challenging.  Religion and spirituality are key parts of this widespread social brainwashing.  How many of us grow up being exposed to many different belief systems and their believers, thinking about them critically, and then being allowed to choose what we feel best reflects our own worldview?  Not many, from what we have seen and heard.  The default motion is that we are born into and assimilated by the belief system of one or both of our parents.  Be they Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Indigenous, or any other, the parental persuasion is rarely neutral.

The truths at the cores of these belief systems are the emphasis of Unified Love Movement.  The installation has various disciplines simultaneously at play, comprising works on canvass, prints, and sculpture as well as bleeding-edge digital technologies and video projections.  Numerous artists have collaborated in this project, sharing their talents to exponentially expand the strength of the exhibition.  It would not have been realized in the same manner without their skills.  The central sculpture features a circular band housing Dennis Creedon’s deft trompe l’oeil painting as well as Leo Villareal’s simply stunning LED artworks.  Above Creedon and Villareal’s works, Scott Draves’s sublime Electric Sheep projections emanate along the cylindrical screen.  Light, pattern, and movement were three of the best ways the Buxtons thought to describe the transcendence towards the divine.

Unified Love Movement’s purpose is not to control or limit thought and ideas, but to inspire inquiry, reflection and mindfulness about one’s self and one’s place in our current existence as well as the grand scheme of things. The installation is about openness and expansiveness, not about confinement and limitations.

Unified Love Movement is the Buxton’s’ most ambitious, exciting project to date.  It invites and encourages the viewer to actively participate in the experience as well as contribute to its spiritual diversity and expansiveness.   The floor plan of the installation is a sacred geometric shape called Metatron’s Cube.  Metatron, an archangel and divine transmitter, supposedly forms he cube from his own soul.  The cube contains 2-dimensional images of all five Platonic Solids and many other primal forms. The cube has six points around its perimeter, each point being occupied by a human figure.  Unified Love Movement presents five figures on five canvasses to occupy five of the six points of Metatron’s Cube, with the viewer occupying the sixth point.  Each canvass’ contemplative figure is of a different belief system that the others.  Each figure is facing the center of the gallery, sending their energy, thought, and prayer towards an iconic image opposite them, symbolizing the godhead of his or her respective belief.  Opposite the viewer is a mirror to reflect the omnipresent divine nature existing within each and every one of us. The soundness of the geometry and the installation is completed through the viewer’s participation.

To the sides of the mirror as well as each godhead glow LED light sculptures in the shape of Metatron’s Cube, reflecting and referencing the shape of the larger installation.  Shining above of the LEDs and godheads, projectors send fountains of Electric Sheep radiating upwards and outwards, completing the energy exchanged in the cycle of belief: energy is sent to the divine, the divine sends the energy back to the believer.  This cycle is one that has been happening for thousands of years and will happen for thousands more, or as long as we are around to play our part in it.  The challenge we face as a species is to create sustainable relationships that benefit all planetary beings and to focus on our overwhelming similarities rather than our minute differences.  We have to have a belief in something truly greater… ourselves.  Together we can create the great change necessary to heal our culture.  Divided we are more easily conquered.  Buxtonia hopes that you are inspired to participate, reflect, and assist in blazing a trail towards a new era of cooperative and sustainable existence.

- The Unified Love Movement -

NOTE:

*Movement in C’s Satisfaction is at 49 Bogart Street, the previous location of Ad Hoc’s exhibition space.

* Aakash Nihalani’s exhibition Tape & Mirrors is NEXT DOOR at 43 Bogart Street/Eastern District{ED}, where Ad Hoc Art is continuing to bring great artists to the public in a new collaborative relationship with ED.

Satisfaction

Come out and experience Movement in C’s newest work this weekend. Why, you ask?
Because we are really excited to show it! Simple raw human relationships played out in space.
Guaranteed to make you feel something!

…come get some…

Seating is limited!  Please RSVP with date and time at cathy@movementinc.org

Where:
Ad Hoc Art Gallery
49 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Take the L to Morgan Ave. Get out in the back and exit on Bogart Street. Walk 1 block Gallery is on your Right

Dates:

Thursday, September 24 @ 8pm
Friday, September 25 @ 8pm and 9pm
Saturday, September 26 @ 8pm and 9pm

Dancers:

Salma Allam
Samir Bitar
Danielle Candy
Adrienne Glasser
Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly
Cathy Richards
Kelly Schroeder

Musicians:

Valerie Kuehne
Matt Thomas

Artwork by:

Chris Stain and Armsrock

The public reception from 7-10pm.  The exhibition will be on view weekly Wednesdays through Sundays from 12pm-7pm until October 25^th, 2009.

Eastern District is a contemporary exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They pride themselves on the merging of all creative artistic practices and presenting the community with art exhibitions as well as ongoing performance and event-based programming.  Eastern District is excited to be presenting Tape and Mirrors with Ad Hoc Art. Ad Hoc, formerly located at 49 Bogart Street, is a staple in the Bushwick art community that has dedicated itself for years to being more than just a gallery.  Ad Hoc is a passionate creative fulcrum, showing work that is often marginalized by the larger New York art scene. This collaboration is the second of many to come, continuing to build the local art community to another level.

Aakash Nihalani’s street work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. Using brightly colored tape, Nihalani selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry pre-existing in the city itself. All execution of his street-level tape work is done on site, with little to no planning.

For however brief of a time, Aakash Nihalani’s work offers people a chance to see a different side of New York, and momentarily escape from their routine schedules and lives. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape”. He tries to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely and to unexpectedly ‘disconnect’ from their reality.

Playing off of the metaphor ’smoke and mirrors,’ meaning an illusion created out of an elaborate distraction, Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition aims to create a magical experience out of the mundane. By implementing mirrors in key positions throughout the space, the viewer is given an opportunity to step ‘into,’ and view themselves within, Nihalani’s signature tape installations. Creating a playful interruption to the regular gallery schematic, the viewer is prodded from being a bystander to a participant, not only interacting with the space and materials around them, but also with their own reflections.

Let Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors open up a new portal of reality and experience yourself between dimensions at Eastern District & Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn.

Original prints and paintings by the artist will also be on view and for sale through the gallery.

To find out more information about Aakash Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition, and more about Ad Hoc and Eastern District’s collaboration please go to adhocart.org and eastern-district.com.

For more information on Aakash Nihalani and his art visit aakashnihalani.com.

Refreshments generously provided by Asahi.

Thank you!  We hope to see you join us at 43 Bogart Street on September 25^th from 7 -10pm.

AHA