Grey Area
COME CELEBRATE DESIGN WEEK
AND THE CLOSING OF SOUND QUALITY
WITH A PERFORMANCE BY RAQQIT
AND A SELECTION OF ARTIST FURNITURE AND DESIGN
SATURDAY, MAY 19TH 6 - 9 PM
GREY AREA
547 BROADWAY / SECOND FLOOR
BETWEEN PRINCE AND SPRING
REGULAR HOURS: TUESDAY - SATURDAYS 10-6PM
featuring new furniture and design by Peter Dayton, Miky Fabrega, Adam Shopkorn, Erin Thurlow, Ryan Humphrey, Martin Oppel, Sebastian Errazuriz, Ana de la Cueva, Elisabeth Kley, Caroline Hurley, Michael Ballou, Snarkitecture, Serpentsea, Michele Oka Doner and Yassi Mazondi
AND THE CLOSING OF SOUND QUALITY
WITH A PERFORMANCE BY RAQQIT
AND A SELECTION OF ARTIST FURNITURE AND DESIGN
SATURDAY, MAY 19TH 6 - 9 PM
GREY AREA
547 BROADWAY / SECOND FLOOR
BETWEEN PRINCE AND SPRING
REGULAR HOURS: TUESDAY - SATURDAYS 10-6PM
featuring new furniture and design by Peter Dayton, Miky Fabrega, Adam Shopkorn, Erin Thurlow, Ryan Humphrey, Martin Oppel, Sebastian Errazuriz, Ana de la Cueva, Elisabeth Kley, Caroline Hurley, Michael Ballou, Snarkitecture, Serpentsea, Michele Oka Doner and Yassi Mazondi
JOHN TEVIS GALLERY
ELISABETH KLEY
The Queen's Feathers
7 MAR - 7 APR, 2012
47 RUE CHAPON, 75003 PARIS
+33 (0)1 42 71 84 83
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY, 14H-19H
jet@johntevis.com
www.johntevis.com
John Tevis is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Elisabeth Kley, The Queen’s Feathers, from 7 March through 7 April, 2012.
The gallery will exhibit six hand-inked prints by Elisabeth Kley. These works are rubbed and printed on Japanese and Thai paper using a series of plates made from Styrofoam into which the artist has drawn, cut and gouged her images of peacocks. Kley’s interest in the spectacular costume of these male animals evolved from her interest in drag as an extreme transformation. Unfolding their tails, peacocks undergo a metamorphosis akin to that of a man who changes his everyday appearance to become a fabulously artificial version of a woman. Designed to theatrically accessorize the domestic interiors of a flamboyant world, the artist’s prints are made for fantasized homes that could belong to the aging dandies she has drawn for years, including Salvador Dali, Erté, Coco Chanel, Elsie de Wolfe, Jack Smith, Ethyl Eichelberger and Candy Darling.
The Queen’s Feathers is the Kley’s second one-person exhibition in Europe and the artist’s first with the gallery.
John Tevis Gallery is located at 47 rue Chapon in the Marais district of Paris. Gallery hours are 2:00 to 7:00 pm, Wednesday through Saturday. For more information on the gallery, its exhibitions, the artists, and how to get here, please visit our website at www.johntevis.com.
The House Show
Rose Burlingham- The Pink Room
David Diao, Elisabeth Kley, Richard Sigmund, Gwenn Thomas
February 7-24 - The House Show
Reception- February 7th, 6-8, 2 West 123rd Street
Elisabeth Kley’s houses are maquettes for full sized ceramic birdhouses made in 2010 for an exhibition at Le Petit Versailles, a garden on the lower east side. "While I wanted to provide the birds with fanciful pseudo Oriental pavilions," Kley says, "I was also concerned to keep the decorations simple, so that they would not overpower their inhabitants. In any case, the birds were not interested. After one month, there was no sign of droppings on either birdhouse.” With their many openings, her houses are airy containers for small spirits to fly in and out of, or perch inside for protection.
Essay on Tabboo! published in Dead Flowers
Tabboo!'s Fairy Tale Renaissance, essay by Elisabeth Kley published in Dead Flowers, catalogue of a 2010 exhibition curated by Lia Gangitano at Vox Populi, Philadelphia and Participant Inc., New York. Based on the work of director and cult legend Timothy Carey (1929-1994), Dead Flowers features new scholarship on this brilliant actor and filmmaker. This publication interprets Carey's cultural contributions through the lens of contemporary art, in works by Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Johanna Constantine, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marti Domination, Scott Ewalt, Georg Gatsas, Brandon Olson, Kembra Pfahler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian) and Paul Thek. It also contains texts by authors including Lia Gangitano, Romeo Carey, Doug McClemont, Gary Indiana, Antony Hegarty, Max G. Morton, Bruce LaBruce, Vaginal Davis, Eileen Myles and Ed Halter.
ISBN 0980232422
solo exhibition in Tbilisi, Georgia
Elisabeth Kley
Peacock and Bottles
Georgian National Museum, National Gallery
Tbilisi, Georgia
November 1 - November 10, 2011
presented by Nana Kipiani as part of Artisterium !V
Storefront Show
COLOR SCHEMES features the paintings of Vince Contarino, Allison Gildersleeve, and Brooke Moyse and the ceramics of Elisabeth Kley. The show is an investigation of the materiality, structure and expressive use of color across disciplines.
OPENING: Friday, October 28, 6-10 PM
On view through November 20
STOREFRONT is participating in BEAT NIGHT. Bushwick art spaces stay open late Friday, October 28, 6-10PM. Organized by Jason Andrew of Norte Maar and sponsored by Hyperallergic.
STOREFRONT is located at 16 Wilson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn.
HOURS: Weekends 1:00-6:00PM or by appointment
DIRECTIONS: L train to Brooklyn. Morgan Avenue stop. Walk four blocks on Morgan to Flushing Avenue. Cross Flushing Avenue to Wilson Avenue. Gallery located btwn Noll + George Streets
Exhibition at Season, Seattle
FOREVER AND NEVER, ONE MORE TIME
SEASON IS PROUD TO PRESENT FOREVER AND NEVER, ONE MORE TIME FEATURING CERAMICS BY ELISABETH KLEY AND PAINTINGS BY SHANNON MCCONNELL.
ELISABETH KLEY CREATES CERAMICS THAT ARE OTHERWORLDLY AND EVERYWORLDLY. ROMAN, ISLAMIC, MEXICAN AND BYZANTINE STYLES, ALONG WITH OTHERS, MINGLE IN HER WORK TO PRODUCE FANTASY IMAGERY THAT DEFIES TIME AND PLACE. FINE ART AND DECORATIVE ELEMENTS FROM VARIOUS PERIODS ARE FILTERED INTO NEO-MAJOLICA, DESTINED TO FURNISH THE INTERIORS OF A FLAMBOYANT WORLD INHABITED BY DANDIES AND FOPS. ELISABETH’S LINE-WORK MIMICS WROUGHT IRON AND SERVES DOUBLE DUTY AS IT BECOMES FRAMES FOR DOZENS OF EYES.
ELISABETH KLEY IS AN ARTIST AND WRITER LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY AND HAS SHOWN OFTEN THERE, WITH A SOLO SHOW AT MOMENTA ART, AND IN VARIOUS GROUP SHOWS AT FRANCIS M. NAUMANN GALLERY, A.M. RICHARD FINE ART AND STOREFRONT GALLERY, BROOKLYN. SEASON IS HONORED TO BRING HER WORK TO THE WEST COAST.
SEASON
1222 NE RAVENNA BLVD
SEATTLE WASHINGTON 98105
(206) 679-0706
HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
SEASON IS PROUD TO PRESENT FOREVER AND NEVER, ONE MORE TIME FEATURING CERAMICS BY ELISABETH KLEY AND PAINTINGS BY SHANNON MCCONNELL.
ELISABETH KLEY CREATES CERAMICS THAT ARE OTHERWORLDLY AND EVERYWORLDLY. ROMAN, ISLAMIC, MEXICAN AND BYZANTINE STYLES, ALONG WITH OTHERS, MINGLE IN HER WORK TO PRODUCE FANTASY IMAGERY THAT DEFIES TIME AND PLACE. FINE ART AND DECORATIVE ELEMENTS FROM VARIOUS PERIODS ARE FILTERED INTO NEO-MAJOLICA, DESTINED TO FURNISH THE INTERIORS OF A FLAMBOYANT WORLD INHABITED BY DANDIES AND FOPS. ELISABETH’S LINE-WORK MIMICS WROUGHT IRON AND SERVES DOUBLE DUTY AS IT BECOMES FRAMES FOR DOZENS OF EYES.
ELISABETH KLEY IS AN ARTIST AND WRITER LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY AND HAS SHOWN OFTEN THERE, WITH A SOLO SHOW AT MOMENTA ART, AND IN VARIOUS GROUP SHOWS AT FRANCIS M. NAUMANN GALLERY, A.M. RICHARD FINE ART AND STOREFRONT GALLERY, BROOKLYN. SEASON IS HONORED TO BRING HER WORK TO THE WEST COAST.
SEASON
1222 NE RAVENNA BLVD
SEATTLE WASHINGTON 98105
(206) 679-0706
HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Review Panel
Friday, February 4, 2011, 6:45 PM – Review Panel
Carol Diehl, Blake Gopnik, and Elisabeth Kley join moderator David Cohen to discuss:
Brice Dellsperger: Refreshing Fassbinder. . . and others
team (gallery, inc.), 83 Grand Street
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Alexander Gray Associates, 508 West 26th Street, Suite 215
Tracey Moffatt: Still and Moving
Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Suite 10W
Cornelia Parker: Rorschach (Accidental III)
D’Amelio Terras, 525 West 22nd Street
Carol Diehl, Blake Gopnik, and Elisabeth Kley join moderator David Cohen to discuss:
Brice Dellsperger: Refreshing Fassbinder. . . and others
team (gallery, inc.), 83 Grand Street
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Alexander Gray Associates, 508 West 26th Street, Suite 215
Tracey Moffatt: Still and Moving
Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Suite 10W
Cornelia Parker: Rorschach (Accidental III)
D’Amelio Terras, 525 West 22nd Street
Huffington Post Best of 2010
Best Ceramics: Elisabeth Kley's Birdbaths and Birdhouses at Le Petit Versailles' outdoor garden gallery.
In this decade in which the global art market has become more a mongrel affair than a thoroughbred show, when nations and cultures like China, Iran, and fundamentalist Islam are shaking Western sensibilities to their core, Elisabeth Kley's ability to revitalize ceramic art with an appearance of ancient and far cultural motifs and styles from around the globe is not only timely, it's in tune with the reappraisal of tradition that is marking much of the art being made abroad and newly introduced to the West. Kleys's work by and large evokes the distance of time and geography without directly appropriating extant cultural designs. Her work is evocative of something we've seen somewhere in our travels or on museum visits -- at times recalling Persian, Venetian, Florentine, Chinese, and Moroccan design and ornament [see slide]--but truly articulates no one style or artifact we can name or point to. Similarly, Kley's glaze paintings recall arabesques, organic vignettes, manuscript illuminations--though her most significant accomplishment is presenting us a richly variegated cross-culturalism that blurs history, lineage, global politics and identities for a generation of global, aesthete-nomads in pursuit of an eclectic and mutable, if resurrected, beauty.
G. Roger Denson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/women-artists-sweep-best-_b_792955.html#s200373
In this decade in which the global art market has become more a mongrel affair than a thoroughbred show, when nations and cultures like China, Iran, and fundamentalist Islam are shaking Western sensibilities to their core, Elisabeth Kley's ability to revitalize ceramic art with an appearance of ancient and far cultural motifs and styles from around the globe is not only timely, it's in tune with the reappraisal of tradition that is marking much of the art being made abroad and newly introduced to the West. Kleys's work by and large evokes the distance of time and geography without directly appropriating extant cultural designs. Her work is evocative of something we've seen somewhere in our travels or on museum visits -- at times recalling Persian, Venetian, Florentine, Chinese, and Moroccan design and ornament [see slide]--but truly articulates no one style or artifact we can name or point to. Similarly, Kley's glaze paintings recall arabesques, organic vignettes, manuscript illuminations--though her most significant accomplishment is presenting us a richly variegated cross-culturalism that blurs history, lineage, global politics and identities for a generation of global, aesthete-nomads in pursuit of an eclectic and mutable, if resurrected, beauty.
G. Roger Denson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/women-artists-sweep-best-_b_792955.html#s200373
A Two Gallery Teacup Show
Drawings, Paintings, Collage, Sculpture and Poetry
December 1 -- December 31, 2010
Double Opening, Wednesday, 1 December, 6 to 8 pm
Turtle Point Press and Rose Burlingham
Woolworth Building Living Room Gallery
233 Broadway, Room 946 15 Park Row, 16E
New York, NY 10279 New York, NY 10038
Star Black, Lindsey Brown, Rob Wynne,Duncan Hannah, Mirjana Ciric, Trevor Winkfield, Yoko Ono, Tim Hull,
Steve Keister, Jeff Joyce, Mary Carlson, David Saunders, Manuel Pardo, Elisabeth Kley, Jeff Clark,
Elaine Equi, Sarah Plimpton, Eva Faye, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya,Gregory Botts, Thomas Evans, Billy Copley,Mary Heilmann,
Paula North, Lance Edmunds, Bruce Weber, David Alexander, Joyce Shapiro, Steven Watson,
Joshua Baldwin, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Jenny Hankwitz, Steven Goldleaf, Indra Tamang
www.roseburlingham.com
Peacock prints published by Element Editions
Series of 35 unique works, some with collaged and hand-painted gouache additions
Waterbased ink on one of the following papers:
Thai Khadi Ni (dyed paper) 20 x 30 inches
Okawara (black on white images) 18 x 26 inches
Lyo glazed white paper (with colored collaged paper) 18 x 23 inches
Signed and dated on verso
Waterbased ink on one of the following papers:
Thai Khadi Ni (dyed paper) 20 x 30 inches
Okawara (black on white images) 18 x 26 inches
Lyo glazed white paper (with colored collaged paper) 18 x 23 inches
Signed and dated on verso
Birdhouses and Birdbaths
Ceramics by Elisabeth Kley
October 1 - October 31, 2010
Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street at Avenue C
Reception Friday October 1, 5-8
visiting hours Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6
October 1 - October 31, 2010
Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street at Avenue C
Reception Friday October 1, 5-8
visiting hours Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6
Group show at Rose Burlingham
Preview
Reception; Tuesday September 14th 2010 from 6-8
Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery
15 Park Row, #16E
New York, New York 10038
By appointment : 646 229 0998
roseburlingham.com
Joana Avillez, Billy Copley, Jack Davidson, Mirjana Ciric, Lori Ellison,
Eva Faye, Andrew Gonzalez, Elisabeth Kley, Sinead Ni Mahaonaigh,
Manuel Pardo, Richard Sigmund, Gwenn Thomas, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya
Reception; Tuesday September 14th 2010 from 6-8
Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery
15 Park Row, #16E
New York, New York 10038
By appointment : 646 229 0998
roseburlingham.com
Joana Avillez, Billy Copley, Jack Davidson, Mirjana Ciric, Lori Ellison,
Eva Faye, Andrew Gonzalez, Elisabeth Kley, Sinead Ni Mahaonaigh,
Manuel Pardo, Richard Sigmund, Gwenn Thomas, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya
The Visible Vagina
FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART
DAVID NOLAN GALLERY
OPENING RECEPTIONS:
Wednesday, January 27, 6-8 pm at Francis Naumann Fine Art
Thursday, January 28, 6-8 pm at David Nolan Gallery
Featuring works by: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Beth B, Judie Bamber, Tracey Baran, Nancy Becker, Hans Bellmer, Mike Bidlo, Robert Brinker, Judy Chicago, Carol Cole, Maureen Connor, Tee Corinne, John Currin, Sarah Davis, D. James Dee, Marcel Duchamp, Carroll Dunham, India Evans, John Evans, Robert Forman, Neil Gall, Kathleen Gilje, Guerrilla Girls, Nancy Grossman, Barbara Hammer, Jane Hammond, Stanley William Hayter, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, David Humphrey, Paul Joostens, Pamela Joseph, Mel Kendrick, Elisabeth Kley, Jeff Koons, Mark Kostabi, Sherrie Levine, Henri Maccheroni, Chema Madoz, Gerard Malanga, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Mariën, André Masson, Sophie Matisse, Ana Mendieta, Allyson Mitchell, Cathy de Monchaux, Wangechi Mutu, Gladys Nilsson, Yoko Ono, Pablo Picasso, Chloe Piene, Richard Prince, Daniel Ranalli, Oona Ratcliffe, Katia Santibanez, Peter Saul, Naomi Savage, Carolee Schneemann , Mira Schor, Michelle Segre, Tom Shannon, James Siena, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Betty Tompkins, Kiyoski Tsuchiya, John Tweddle, Tabitha Vevers, Douglas Vogel, Robert Watts, Hannah Wilke, Terry Winters, and Beatrice Wood.
THE VISIBLE VAGINA is an exhibition jointly organized by Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan. It is scheduled to open at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art (24 West 57th Street) and at David Nolan Gallery (527 West 29th Street) on January 28, 2010. Both shows will run concurrently, ending on March 20, 2010.
DAVID NOLAN GALLERY
OPENING RECEPTIONS:
Wednesday, January 27, 6-8 pm at Francis Naumann Fine Art
Thursday, January 28, 6-8 pm at David Nolan Gallery
Featuring works by: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Beth B, Judie Bamber, Tracey Baran, Nancy Becker, Hans Bellmer, Mike Bidlo, Robert Brinker, Judy Chicago, Carol Cole, Maureen Connor, Tee Corinne, John Currin, Sarah Davis, D. James Dee, Marcel Duchamp, Carroll Dunham, India Evans, John Evans, Robert Forman, Neil Gall, Kathleen Gilje, Guerrilla Girls, Nancy Grossman, Barbara Hammer, Jane Hammond, Stanley William Hayter, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, David Humphrey, Paul Joostens, Pamela Joseph, Mel Kendrick, Elisabeth Kley, Jeff Koons, Mark Kostabi, Sherrie Levine, Henri Maccheroni, Chema Madoz, Gerard Malanga, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Mariën, André Masson, Sophie Matisse, Ana Mendieta, Allyson Mitchell, Cathy de Monchaux, Wangechi Mutu, Gladys Nilsson, Yoko Ono, Pablo Picasso, Chloe Piene, Richard Prince, Daniel Ranalli, Oona Ratcliffe, Katia Santibanez, Peter Saul, Naomi Savage, Carolee Schneemann , Mira Schor, Michelle Segre, Tom Shannon, James Siena, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Betty Tompkins, Kiyoski Tsuchiya, John Tweddle, Tabitha Vevers, Douglas Vogel, Robert Watts, Hannah Wilke, Terry Winters, and Beatrice Wood.
THE VISIBLE VAGINA is an exhibition jointly organized by Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan. It is scheduled to open at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art (24 West 57th Street) and at David Nolan Gallery (527 West 29th Street) on January 28, 2010. Both shows will run concurrently, ending on March 20, 2010.
alLuPiNiT Vol. 3
some photos and a transcription of Tabboo!'s the Nightingale are included in
alLuPiNiT
Tabboo! issue
Fall/Winter 2009-10
Vol. 3 $15 SD*
copies available at Participant Inc 253 Houston St. NYC wed-sun 12-7
alLuPiNiT
Tabboo! issue
Fall/Winter 2009-10
Vol. 3 $15 SD*
copies available at Participant Inc 253 Houston St. NYC wed-sun 12-7
A. M. Richard show extended
MODERN and CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS
at A. M. Richard Fine Art
has been extended to January 24
at A. M. Richard Fine Art
has been extended to January 24
MODERN and CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS
A.M. Richard Fine Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of ceramics with selected works by DEVIN DOUGHERTY, STEVE KEISTER, ELISABETH KLEY AND GEORGE SCHNEEMAN
On view December 4th – January 24th, 2010
Opening reception: Friday December 4th, 6-8 pm
A.M. Richard Fine Art
328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel: (917) 570-1476
From the press release:
Contrasting Mr. Keister’s sculptural work, Elisabeth Kley’s ceramics are anchored in the iconography of traditional domestic ceramic forms. The vases are hand-built using coils and slabs. The ceramics are low-fired with under-glaze, scraffito and wax resist and finally re-fired with the artist’s homemade glazes. The artist is prolific and has produced an important body of drawings relating to her ceramic output. Ms. Kley’s imagination is fueled by a wide range of seemingly disparate subjects and themes. Renaissance ornament, Islamic tile work, flamboyant artists (Dali, Chanel, Jack Smith, performers in drag) and birds which embody theatricality (peacocks, fancy pigeons) are but a few of her known muses. Expressive eyes are a constant motif and adorn her pots in mysterious ways. Eyes peer and probe often within leafy, wing like totemic masks. In Ms. Kley’s hands, vases are not static objects. Wearing dramatic and colorful maquillages in the guise of color and glazes, the ceramic pots have been infused with life. The Kley vases have been morphed into stage players- they look at us and beg to be looked at.
Fri-Sun 1-6pm - Please call ahead of time or refer to website for holiday hours.
L to Bedford; J,M,Z to Marcy ave; B61 to Driggs & South 4th street
We are located between South 4th Street and South 5th Street
On view December 4th – January 24th, 2010
Opening reception: Friday December 4th, 6-8 pm
A.M. Richard Fine Art
328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel: (917) 570-1476
From the press release:
Contrasting Mr. Keister’s sculptural work, Elisabeth Kley’s ceramics are anchored in the iconography of traditional domestic ceramic forms. The vases are hand-built using coils and slabs. The ceramics are low-fired with under-glaze, scraffito and wax resist and finally re-fired with the artist’s homemade glazes. The artist is prolific and has produced an important body of drawings relating to her ceramic output. Ms. Kley’s imagination is fueled by a wide range of seemingly disparate subjects and themes. Renaissance ornament, Islamic tile work, flamboyant artists (Dali, Chanel, Jack Smith, performers in drag) and birds which embody theatricality (peacocks, fancy pigeons) are but a few of her known muses. Expressive eyes are a constant motif and adorn her pots in mysterious ways. Eyes peer and probe often within leafy, wing like totemic masks. In Ms. Kley’s hands, vases are not static objects. Wearing dramatic and colorful maquillages in the guise of color and glazes, the ceramic pots have been infused with life. The Kley vases have been morphed into stage players- they look at us and beg to be looked at.
Fri-Sun 1-6pm - Please call ahead of time or refer to website for holiday hours.
L to Bedford; J,M,Z to Marcy ave; B61 to Driggs & South 4th street
We are located between South 4th Street and South 5th Street
Bazvalon: Drawing and Ceramics
October 13 - December 15
Opening Tuesday October 13
6-8pm
Rose Burlingham / Living Room Gallery
15 Park Row apt. 16e
New York, NY 10038
“Oh help me heaven,” she prayed, “to be decorative and to do right!” Ronald Firbank
Living Room Gallery is pleased to present: Bazvalon, a selection of Elisabeth Kley’s recent ceramics in the forms of bottles, peacocks and pavilions, glazed with Islamic and pre- Roman motifs, along with related ink and watercolor drawings.
Bazvalon is an imaginary place invented by Ronald Firbank, the early twentieth century English eccentric, author and aesthete. "Aside from Duchesses, Mr. Firbank has a predilection for water-closets and the more wayward aspects of sex- all treated with the subtlest of subtlety." Firbank is one of Elisabeth Kley’s beloved host of dandies; Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Erte, Elsie de Wolfe, Jack Smith and the drag performance artist Ethyl Eichelberger, who, like Firbanks’ character, St. Laura de Nazi-anzi, were “not born organically good.”
Guardian angels and guides, whose rare volumes litter Kley’s studio floor along with well-thumbed books on Turkish embroidery, Chinese architecture and the Alhambra Palace in Granada - inspire her highly refined practice. “ There was a pause- just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.”
Firbank’s titles alone -Vainglory, The Flower Beneath the Foot, The Princess Zoubaroff, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, evoke a carefree, more stylish time. As E.M. Forster said of Firbank, "It is frivolous stuff and how rare, how precious is frivolity!"
Open by appointment
For more information:
www.roseburlingham.com
646 229 099898
Opening Tuesday October 13
6-8pm
Rose Burlingham / Living Room Gallery
15 Park Row apt. 16e
New York, NY 10038
“Oh help me heaven,” she prayed, “to be decorative and to do right!” Ronald Firbank
Living Room Gallery is pleased to present: Bazvalon, a selection of Elisabeth Kley’s recent ceramics in the forms of bottles, peacocks and pavilions, glazed with Islamic and pre- Roman motifs, along with related ink and watercolor drawings.
Bazvalon is an imaginary place invented by Ronald Firbank, the early twentieth century English eccentric, author and aesthete. "Aside from Duchesses, Mr. Firbank has a predilection for water-closets and the more wayward aspects of sex- all treated with the subtlest of subtlety." Firbank is one of Elisabeth Kley’s beloved host of dandies; Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Erte, Elsie de Wolfe, Jack Smith and the drag performance artist Ethyl Eichelberger, who, like Firbanks’ character, St. Laura de Nazi-anzi, were “not born organically good.”
Guardian angels and guides, whose rare volumes litter Kley’s studio floor along with well-thumbed books on Turkish embroidery, Chinese architecture and the Alhambra Palace in Granada - inspire her highly refined practice. “ There was a pause- just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.”
Firbank’s titles alone -Vainglory, The Flower Beneath the Foot, The Princess Zoubaroff, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, evoke a carefree, more stylish time. As E.M. Forster said of Firbank, "It is frivolous stuff and how rare, how precious is frivolity!"
Open by appointment
For more information:
www.roseburlingham.com
646 229 099898
A Contemporary Bestiary: a selection of art works by Meredith Allen, Andrew Garn, Jude Hughes, Elisabeth Kley, Ann Murphy, Carol Saft, Jessica Weiss and Martin Wilson.
On view September 11th – October 11th, 2009
A.M. Richard Fine Art • 328 Berry Street, 3rd floor • Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.amrichardfineart.com • tel: (917) 570-1476 • gallery@amrichardfineart.com
A.M. Richard Fine Art • 328 Berry Street, 3rd floor • Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.amrichardfineart.com • tel: (917) 570-1476 • gallery@amrichardfineart.com
Momenta Art performance event and ephemera sale
Saturday March 7 2009 from 8 pm to 12 am
performances at 11 pm
Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue. Brooklyn, NY 11211
info@momentaart.org
ph 718.218.8058
In conjunction with Chain of Love, Southside Williamsburg performance/event night, there will be performance (and some non-performance) related ephemera and preparatory material available to see and for sale, including cds, dvds, posters, books, prints, buttons, small drawings, bandannas, cards, photos, lipsticks and who knows what else, by artists and performers including
Jojo Americo/The Ones
Oliver Herring
Steve Keister
Elisabeth Kley
Larry Krone
Michael Mahalchick
Robert Melee
Psychic TV with Eddie O'Dowd
Hunter Reynolds & Ethan Shoshan
Rafael Sánchez & Kathleen White
Chrysanne Stathacos
Tabboo!
Mika Tajima/New Humans
with live impromptu performances by Larry Krone, Hunter Reynolds & Ethan Shoshan, Rafael Sánchez & Kathleen White and (subject to time and circumstance) Michael Mahalchick & Tabboo! plus more.....
performances at 11 pm
Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue. Brooklyn, NY 11211
info@momentaart.org
ph 718.218.8058
In conjunction with Chain of Love, Southside Williamsburg performance/event night, there will be performance (and some non-performance) related ephemera and preparatory material available to see and for sale, including cds, dvds, posters, books, prints, buttons, small drawings, bandannas, cards, photos, lipsticks and who knows what else, by artists and performers including
Jojo Americo/The Ones
Oliver Herring
Steve Keister
Elisabeth Kley
Larry Krone
Michael Mahalchick
Robert Melee
Psychic TV with Eddie O'Dowd
Hunter Reynolds & Ethan Shoshan
Rafael Sánchez & Kathleen White
Chrysanne Stathacos
Tabboo!
Mika Tajima/New Humans
with live impromptu performances by Larry Krone, Hunter Reynolds & Ethan Shoshan, Rafael Sánchez & Kathleen White and (subject to time and circumstance) Michael Mahalchick & Tabboo! plus more.....
Drawings in alLuPiNiT
A drawing of Dali is on the cover (and a drawing of Amanda Lear is inside)
of alLuPiNiT, a magazine edited by Rafael Sanchez and Kathleen White:
copies available at Participant Inc 253 Houston St. NYC wed-sun 12-7
alLuPiNiT
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who do you want to be? Vol. 2 $10 SD*
RATS !!!
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BRUCE BENDERSON
whom do I haunt ?
ROBERT & ZOË
TAMERLIS LUND
Mikey's in the house…
MARK MORRISROE
DIRT ON DIRT
Lynelle White speaks
INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE
&
SNEAKERS !!! time travel with Keran James
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Elisabeth Kley
Kim Jones
Richard Hell
Taco Bell
Jim Fletcher
Shana Fletcher
Shelly Marlow
Emmanuel Gaffard
Lorca
Erik Odik
Vickers Bastard Gringo
Alexander Hamilton
Edie Sedgwick
Robin Graubard
Adam Shecter
Black Sabbath
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Adam Shecter
Black Sabbath
