Elisabeth Kley
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.




alLuPiNiT Vol. 3
some photos and a transcription of Tabboo!'s the Nightingale are included in
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Tabboo! issue
Fall/Winter 2009-10
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MODERN and CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS
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





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






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




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.....


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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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