Pulled from the vaults: Showpaper’s The Community Serviced Too footage of the Chris Stain / Adam Void newspaper box
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Summer 2011
“An American Dream” receives kind words from Vandalog, Brooklyn Street Art, Complex, Bmore Art and Popflys
The exhibition, "An American Dream" has received incredible press from a variety of sources. Many thanks to RJ and Gaia at Vandalog for their mention and additional graffiti images. Brooklyn Street Art is always on point with their continued coverage of all things Avoid. Nick at Complex has shown lots of love recently and is greatly appreciated. The local, Bmore Art Blog also featured some images from the opening night. Finally, Popflys, a daily photo and design blog, mentioned Adam Void's photography on March 22nd.
They are quoted as saying, "I can’t say I’m even on the edge of necessarily enjoying Adam Void's photographs but I knew I had to post him out of some sense of having the chance to write about Adam Void before everyone is writing about him and his work. ...there’s something there, something less voyeuristic and more point of view. A point of view on struggle, it just doesn’t feel like it’s through a photographers eye and I’m starting to like that."
- a strange, but flattering comment from those guys.
Adam Void and Mighty Tanaka @ The Fountain Art Fair , NYC Armory Weekend * March 9-11th
Mighty Tanaka is taking the streets to the art fairs once again with March 9th-11th's Fountain Art Fair at the NYC Armory Weekend.
Alex and crew will be putting together a large booth with the work of "long standing Tanaka artists as well as some new faces."
Come visit them at Booth C-203 at the Southwest corner, right near the bar!!
Featuring art from: Abe Lincoln Jr, Adam Leech, Adam Void, Alexandra Pacula, Alice Mizrachi, Andrew H. Shirley, Burn 353, Cake, CAM, Celso, Conrad Carlson, Criminy Johnson, Curtis Readel, Don Pablo Pedro, Drew Tyndell, ELLE, Ellen Stagg, EVOKER, Flying Fortress, Gigi Bio, Gigi Chen, Greg Henderson, Hellbent, Hiroshi Kumagai, Infinity, JMR, Joe Iurato, John Breiner, Katie Decker, Lamour Supreme, Masahiro Ito, Matt Siren, Max Greis, Mike Schreiber, Nathan Pickett, Nathan Vincent, NEVER, Peat Wollaeger, Robbie Busch, See One, Sofia Maldonado, TooFly, UFO, Vahge, VengRWK, VIK
Location:
Booth C-203
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue @ 25th Street
March 9 - March 11, 2012
General Public Hours:
1pm – 7pm, daily
$10 day pass / $15 weekend pass
buy discounted tickets online!
Fountain is an exhibition of avant garde artwork in New York during Armory week, Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach and Los Angeles during Pacific Standard Time weekend.
Mighty Tanaka presents: Lost & Found Featuring the artwork of Adam Void, Alice Mizrachi, Curtis Readel, ELLE & John Briener * Jan 13th * Brooklyn NY
Mighty Tanaka presents:
Lost & Found
Featuring the artwork of Adam Void, Alice Mizrachi, Curtis Readel, ELLE & John Briener
Look around you; the world is full of art. We all know the saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, however, some individuals choose to take that phrase to heart. Artists from a range of disciplines utilize a world of scattered debris, creating an array of striking creations from the items that many people would find worthless. Mighty Tanaka is pleased to bring you our first show of 2012 entitled Lost & Found, a group show of found objects and the artwork that is created from them. Featuring the vision of Adam Void, Alice Mizrachi, Curtis Readel, ELLE & John Breiner, each artist represents a unique idea of the world through their chosen method of creation.
Lost & Found intends to demonstrate a cross-section of aesthetic interpretation of objects that are generally taken for granted in daily life. Artwork made from found materials provides the artist with an endless amount of inspiration, as all the necessary components are easily accessible and free to use. This is the art of the juxtaposition, both complimenting and conflicting itself, as the work is literally born from the streets and transformed into something that is new, exciting and fresh.
Through the usage of mediums such as old beat up currency, abandoned pieces of wood, detached doors and tattered textiles, the artist is able to rebuild forgotten memories and forge them into a new identity. Lost & Found offers the viewer the opportunity to reconnect with the pieces of the past and the chance to begin anew.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, January 13th, 2012
6:00PM - 10:00PM
(Show closes February 5th, 2012)
Mighty Tanaka
111 Front St., Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Office: 718.596.8781
Email: contact@mightytanaka.com
Web: http://www.mightytanaka.com
Adam Void selected by The Andy Warhol Museum, The Fowler Arts Collective & The Bronx River Art Center for online exhibitions at CurateNYC.org
Curate NYC, A juried exhibition of NYC visual artists, along with The Andy Warhol Museum, The Fowler Arts Collective, and The Bronx River Art Center has chosen Adam Void for three online exhibitions.
Eric C. Shiner
Director
The Andy Warhol Museum
Eric C. Shiner is director of The Andy Warhol Museum. He joined the museum in 2008 as the Milton Fine Curator of Art, and he has served as director since January 2011. A curator, professor, writer, and translator, Shiner was an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and in 2007 he curated Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York at Japan Society in New York City. He also served as assistant curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2001.
After joining The Warhol, Shiner organized the large-scale exhibition, The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times. A proud native of New Castle, Pa., Shiner received his Bachelor of Philosophy in the History of Art & Architecture and Japanese Language & Literature at the University of Pittsburgh’s Honors College. He went on to receive the Japanese Government’s Ministry of Education Monbusho Prize and attended graduate school at Osaka University, where he earned an MA in the History of Art.
It was in his last semester at Osaka that Shiner interned in the curatorial department of The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, where he worked closely with Shinji Kohmoto, the museum’s chief curator, who would become his mentor. This led to Shiner becoming assistant curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2001. In addition to his museum work, Shiner is an active writer, lecturer, and translator; a contributing editor for Art AsiaPacific magazine; and an adjunct professor of art history at the University of Pittsburgh.
Fowler Arts Collective is a studio and gallery collective in the Greenpoint Terminal warehouse complex located on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Established by Lia Post in 2010, Fowler houses 24 talented artists working in 18 studios. Fowler has a 900 sq. ft. gallery and event space that is the site for original exhibitions, artist projects, readings, classes, and more. The gallery program at Fowler concentrates on exhibiting collaborative, self-directed shows between artists. In order to benefit as many artists as possible, our gallery program is focused primarily on exhibiting emerging artists who do not have studios in our space.
67 West Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11222
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Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is a culturally diverse, multi-arts, non-profit organization that provides a forum for community, artists, and youth to transform creativity into vision. Our Education, Exhibitions, Artist Studios, and Presenting Programs cultivate leadership in an urban environment and stewardship of our natural resource — the Bronx River.
2064 Boston Road
Bronx, NY 10460
Adam Void and Mighty Tanaka * Art Basel Miami * Fountain Art Fair * Dec 1st-4th
Adam Void and Mighty Tanaka are going to Art Basel Miami. Come and enjoy the fun and sun with Mighty Tanaka at the Fountain Art Fair December 1st – 4th! This is our first year going and we couldn’t be more excited.
For this event, we will be exhibiting artwork in two (yes, two!) booths. In one booth, we will be hosting a full scale installation of mind blowing art by Miguel Ovalle while in the adjoining booth we will be displaying a myriad of talented artists who truly represent the raw and the refined! We hope to see you there!!
Participating artists include: Adam Void, Alexandra Pacula, Alice Mizrachi, ChrisRWK, Ellen Stagg, Gigi Chen, Hellbent, Hiroshi Kumagai, JMR, John Breiner, Max Greis, Mike Schreiber, Robbie Busch, Skewville, TooFly, URnewyork, VengRWK & Miguel Ovalle
Location: 2505 N. Miami Ave (corner of 25th St), Miami, Florida
Dates: December 1st – 4th (12pm – 7pm daily)
Tickets for Fountain: $10 daily/$15 weekend pass (Tickets sold at the door)
For more information, visist www.fountainartfair.com
Adam Void * featured on 2 art blogs * Beautiful Decay’s “Cult of Decay” * & PEEK Blog
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The magazine, Beautiful / Decay's art blog, "Cult of Decay," featured two paintings from Adam Void, "No Income, No Assets" and "The Golden West."
Check out their blog to see other examples of their "something out of nothing" aesthetic.
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Check out artist, Lee Gainer's photo blog: PEEK
It features a new artist's work every week. On the week of September 14th, they featured Adam Void's painting, "The Golden West."
Avoid pi / Adam Void * on the cover of Showpaper 115
Showpaper is a free bi-weekly print-only publication which lists and promotes every all-ages & DIY show in the NYC / tri-state area. They spread the word about shows that would otherwise slip under the radar, and about the all-ages scene in general. Each issue also features a full color piece of art by a contemporary artist.
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It is a tremendous honor to be included on the cover of Showpaper. We believe that they are making the most important addition to the printed matter of the DIY movement.
Thank you.
New York Art Book Fair @ PS1 * Avoid pi & Droid 907 * collabo zine * LTD 2 * Welcome to the Jungle *
Come to the Pantheon Projects table to see the new collabo-zine from Avoid and Droid * LTD 2 Welcome to the Jungle *
The zine chronicles their 2011 fright train journeys including the month-long trek up the west coast.
Produced by Underground Editions & Pantheon Projects *
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Printed Matter, Inc. presents
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
September 30–October 2, 2011
Preview: Thursday, Sept. 29, 6–9 p.m.
MoMA PS1
Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries.
Philip Aarons, Chair of the Board for Printed Matter, Inc., said: “The NY Art Book Fair remains the premier venue to find what’s new in art publishing. This year’s focus on artists’ photography books, and the addition of more than 60 zinesters in an outdoor tent, will make this year's edition of the Fair the best so far.”
16,500 people attended The NY Art Book Fair 2010, the last edition of this favorite meeting place for book collectors, dealers, artists, curators, independent publishers, and other art enthusiasts.
The NY Art Book Fair 2011 will include special projects, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. The Classroom—a curated series of artist-led workshops, readings, and discussions—and the fifth annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference—a dynamic, two-day symposium on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture—will engage visitors in lively conversation all weekend long.
HOURS AND LOCATION
The NY Art Book Fair is free and open to the public.
Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6 pm–9 pm
Friday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, October 1, 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, October 2, 11 am–7 pm
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY (map)
“Contemporary Abstractions” group show * Opens September 23rd * @ powerHouse Arena * Presented by: Mighty Tanaka * New work from Adam Void
Contemporary Abstractions @ powerHouse Arena Sept 23 – Oct 5
Mighty Tanaka presents:
Contemporary Abstractions
Interpretations of an Art Form
Colors, dimension, flow and definition are all words that can describe our latest show at Mighty Tanaka entitled Contemporary Abstractions, featuring the artwork of: Adam Void, Drew Tyndell, Greg Henderson, JMR, Julia Colavita & Lauren Comito. Hosted by powerHouse Arena, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, this art show exhibits the work of six emerging artists who represent different directions and juxtaposing interpretations of Abstract art. Contemporary Abstractions is a cross section of styles that highlight the range and breath of this established art form and aims to emphasize a variety of techniques and approaches that can be associated with the movement.
From found material sculptures and geometric design to painted canvas and tailored collages, Contemporary Abstractions features an array of complimentary talent that is pushing the bounds of an art form. The artist’s work strives to continue the legacy established by their predecessors and to create a solid foundation for future generations to grow upon.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
6:00PM – 9:00PM
(Show closes October 5th, 2011)
Hosted by:
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(F Train to York St)