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Thank you for being here on the Sundays—loved welcoming you to my kitchen. With a kiss, Elise G

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[April Gertler : 16 October 2016]

Guided by Gertler’s conversation, images, and energy — we go with her —within a enlarging circle tracing the fullness of her practice and its life. 

Gertler ready, smiles back...

As the room gets crowded, I’m in the hallway looking through the open door.

Artists on the street during the walk, In Search of the Miraculous

...one of the timed meeting and here some history of Berlin’s musical past

...a record is played.

A gathering.

Picture Berliners riding through the Tempelhof once an airport 

----------some of what we saw:  portfolio & programs----------

THEY ARE WHAT THEY SEEM 

Collage and text work ongoing for over ten years.

G 2 G

She/[G] Gertler & me/[G] Gardella have been exchanging Polaroids (its reincarnations) since 2001. We shoot in response to the one received, Then send it through the post office. 

Gertler described the unique hybrid residency program she founded in 2009 and continues to direct. It’s mission intense and rigorous—dynamically and deliciously. Meals together are as integral as the studio visits, curatorial marathon. The city itself shapes the program and the artist walk is an introduction. 

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS a 10+ hour walk through Berlin. Like a relay the PB artists are guided into neighborhood by a local artist and passed to their next guide. So the day continues - with moments when food or drinks seem miraculously to appear at just the right time. Among stories and history - the sense of place and awareness of each other emerges.

The title for the walk in homage to Bas Jan Ader's last work of that name. In 1975, he set sail in a 13 foot boat with the intent of crossing the Atlantic. He was never seen again.

ARTIST BOOKS / CAKEHOLE

In these photographs and collages, Gertler uses images of fragmented women’s bodies. This is the second book in a series of three printed on a Risograph machine. 

H  E  A  T

Parading (and more) through the streets of Berlin. Sometimes with many, sometimes solo.

A social sculpture created monthly by Gertler & Schiesser. They invite an artist to install their work in an apartment in Berlin (mostly) and alternately in other cities. Then for this Sunday afternoon reception they bake the artist’s favorite dessert and serve it with coffee/tea to the guests. 

http://sonntagberlin.tumblr.com

BERLIN ART LINK— 

http://www.berlinartlink.com/2016/03/25/home-sonntag-at-home-in-berlin-an-interview-with-april-gertler-and-adrian-schiesser/

[below, from August 2014 The New York Times : T Magazine blog]

.......................................If you are in Berlin don’t miss it. 

TRAVERSED LANDSCAPES

A series of works with thread sewn into found black & white photographs.

WALL DRAWINGS

Gertler stated making large wall pieces after she had been using string sewn and across walls. She was interested in the ephemeral quality of the chalk and the work itself. 

A metamorphic and hidden neighborhood speakeasy. Each time it pops-up the atmosphere, the cocktails, and personas of the bartenders —familiar yet new. 

TAKE THE CAKE

“...my favorite C-word     cake.”

With these Lecture Performances Gertler shares her passion for baking while riffing on feminism. She showed a clip from Take the Cake performed as part of a six night series: 6 Women, 6 Nights, 6 Performances at the project space tête in Berlin. 

Then when the clip ended....and to the delight of us all.

She reached behind the curtain and brought out her Hungarian Cherry Cake!

We eat cake.

Hungarian Cherry Cake baked for us on Sunday by April Gertler. The recipe as remembered from her mother’s baking. 

As we said good night.

So happy you were here. 

A very special thanks to April Gertler.

[our secret, sort of]

In the summer of 2012 we were together, when she invited me as visiting artist for PICTURE BERLIN. As old friends and collaborators we talked into many late nights and picked up the beat in the early morning over tea and coffee. We talked about community, art, friendships, and making things happen. In the fall of 2012 came Sonntag that Gertler co-initiated with Adrian Schiesser & :::::Presenting at 17::::: at my apartment on East 4th Street. Both have continued on the same third Sunday of the month. 

To make this night possible, April & Adrian postponed their October 2016 date so April could be in the East Village for P17.

Thank you.

Yours, Elise G

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Cecilia Dougherty, Angie Waller, Bobby Abate, Christopher Carroll, Julia Shirar, Megan Michalak, Dana Hoey, Robert Appleton, Shanna Maurizi, Diane Cook & Jonathan VanDyke, Christine Heindl, Guillermo E. Brown, Bill Johnson, Jennifer Hayashida, Branden Koch, Laura Napier, Sarah Rushford, Brittney Hollinger, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Boo Boo Cousins & Diana Cherian, Jessica Watson, Amy Finkbeiner, Mary Patten, Jane Weissman, Betsy Alwin, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, John Zhao, Michelle Handelman, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Frank Meuschke, Samuael Topiary, Alexandra Phillips, Charles Eladio Beronio, G Todd Haun, Chuyen Huynh, Erin O'Brien, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Tara Ruth, Sanford Wintersberger, Alexandra Chasin and April Gertler.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

In October 2015, at the 3 year anniversary of  :::::Presenting at 17::::: we celebrated — 39X17 a group show/readings/performances at La MaMa Galleria.

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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APRIL GERTLER : 16 OCTOBER 2016, 8PM

In Search of the Miraculous

[above Gertler’s book]

http://aprilgertler.com

April Gertler is an American artist living and working in Berlin since 2005. Her many self-generated projects include the hybrid art academy/artist residency she founded in 2009, PICTURE BERLIN. April’s work is diverse, ranging from making books and collages to performance. More recently her work has leaned in the direction of social practices. In addition to the two self-published artist books, DAMP PATCHES and CAKEHOLE, April’s projects include SONNTAG, 2012-present, a monthly initiative with Adrian Schiesser—an artist installs their work in a Berlin apartment and during the afternoon reception Gertler and Schiesser serve the artist’s favorite cake which they have baked. is served with coffee / tea on a Sunday afternoon; HEAT (2015), a public demonstration and parade against Winter in collaboration with Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen; TAKE THE CAKE (2014-present), which marries a Cooking Show with Lecture Performance, and most recently a speak-easy bar called DETLEF (2015- present) with Adrian Schiesser, Hannah Goldstein and Julien Villaret. An ongoing side project she started in 2014 is THE FIELD GUIDE BERLIN - which is a collection of resources in a small book format for artists, curators, students, and makers in general who come to Berlin. A faculty artist, Bard Berlin Campus; 1991-BA Social Science Theory, UC Berkeley/ 1997-BFA Photography, California College of the Arts/ 2002-MFA Photography, Bard College, NY.

SONNTAG

Since 2012-present, a monthly initiative with Adrian Schiesser—an artist installs their work in a Berlin apartment and during the afternoon reception Gertler and Schiesser serve the artist’s favorite cake which they have baked. is served with coffee / tea on a Sunday afternoon. Gertler and Schiesser have also hosted Sonntag in the States and countries.

http://sonntagberlin.tumblr.com/

PICTURE BERLIN

A hybrid art academy/artist residency founded and directed by Gertler since 2009.

http://www.pictureberlin.org

[above/ Picture Berlin photo by April Gertler]

[above/ Picture Berlin photo by Piotr Pietrus]

THE FIELD GUIDE BERLIN

A collection of resources in a small book format for artists, curators, students, and makers in general who come to Berlin.

http://fieldguideberlin.bigcartel.com

HEAT

A 2015 public demonstration and parade against Winter in collaboration with Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen.

http://www.bln.fm/2015/02/berliner-fordern-das-ende-des-winters/

http://kunsten.nu/journal/demo-mod-vinter/

[above/ HEAT photo by Adrian Schiesser]

[above/ HEAT photo by Andre Schmidt ]

DETLEF

A speak-easy bar called (2015- present) with Adrian Schiesser, Hannah Goldstein and Julien Villaret. 

[above/ Detlef photo by Adrian Schiesser]

TAKE THE CAKE

2014-present marries a cooking show with lecture performance.

[above/ photos by Marusya Syroechkovskaya]

Excited to welcome you for April Gertler—8PM Sunday 16 October  :::::Presenting at 17::::: 124 East 4th Street #17 (1 & 2 Aves), New York, NY 10003 / 5th floor walk-up.

Please join us for a curious Show & Tell offering. Yours, Elise G

PREVIOUSLY/  Alexandra Chasin, Sanford Wintersberger, Tara Ruth, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty. 

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

[above/ photo by Marusya Syroechkovskaya]

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[Alexandra Chasin : 18 September] a language experimentalist with scholarly training Chasin invited us to come along as she explored the links betwixt her creative projects and works.

Chasin, partly inspired by a 1960s event, wrote a short fiction monologue for a character who is an art-vandal and she wanted the words to be accompanied by images on the page. For reader engagement: she used an app to incorporate images when triggered by the reader.

Tip, shake the iPad and the text remains the same—but the images, from a cache of 600+, fall randomly on the page.

This sort of thinking in fiction writing interests Chasin more so than plot or character type- rather what are the possibilities of interaction/intersection by the reader that make a textual change or nuance.

To not only promote but require reader engagement with text, Chasin gave us a cryptogram.

This activity of puzzling through it calls attention to the processes of reading and writing as we move almost without notice from the position of ‘reader’ to the task of ‘writer.’

The cryptogram, ELENA = AGAIN, solves/writes/reads as: I leave her and leave her. I’ve left her over and over and now I’m going to leave again. I’m so sorry Elena I don’t want to hurt you but I do here I am leaving you hurting again.

The artist Paul Ramirez Jonas on Governor’s Island, NYC participating in Chasin’s ongoing annual June project Writing On It All.

[above/ the evening's guiding topics]

Thank you for coming. With my special thanks to Alexandra, who so enthusiastically jumped in on short notice when a spot on the P17 calendar opened up. It’s a wonderful thing when people say—yes. 

Yours, Elise G

NEXT/  APRIL GERTLER, 16 OCTOBER 2016

PREVIOUSLY/  Alexandra Chasin, Sanford Wintersberger,Tara Ruth, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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ALEXANDRA CHASIN : 18 SEPTEMBER 2016, 8PM  / Please help me figure out what these things have to do with each other:  Fragments, Lists, Houses, Creative Nonfiction, Public Humanities, and my latest book.

2016

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo20582764.html

Facebook launch invite/

https://www.facebook.com/events/997555223677071/

Looking forward to welcoming you for Alexandra Chasin at     :::::Presenting at 17::::: 

I am trying to wrest or wreak coherence from a set of interests and practices that seems diverse.  I currently teach a course called “Fragments, Lists & Lacunae,” in which we confront apparent silences and absences, gaps and white space, in a range of texts and media.  I direct and curate a project in which interested members of the public are invited to write on the interior surfaces of a house in facilitated (and free) sessions. And I just wrote a book about the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry J. Anslinger, a bureaucrat who spent the years from 1930 to 1962 installing the legal and ideological foundations of the contemporary carceral state in the U.S.  The book violates the conventions of biography by engaging in speculation and taking hyperlyrical departures from the historical narrative.

I will demo enough of each of these projects to intrigue the senses and engage the audience.  I will articulate the conceptual foundations under them.  The ultimate audience participation will be to explain the coherence that is just outside my grasp.  Please.

www.writingonitall.com

Chasin is the Artistic Director of Writing On It All, which continues each summer at Governor’s Island, NYC. It is a simple invitation to anyone to “take a marker and make a mark” while it tangibly experiments with four concepts not usually associated with writing: site specificity, collaboration, materiality, and ephemerality.

books/

2013

2007

2001

http://www.alexandrachasin.us/

bio/

Alexandra Chasin is associate professor of Literary Studies at Lang College, The New School.  Chasin’s previous books include Selling Out:  The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market (nonfiction) and Kissed By (fiction).  Assassin of Youth:  A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs comes out this month.  Chasin is the Artistic Director of Writing On It All, a public participatory writing project that takes place on Governors Island every June.

statement/

I was trained as an interdisciplinary scholar of 20th century U.S. culture, and then I went and trained again as a fiction writer.  So I have switched disciplines and/or genres.  I have often preferred an institutional margin to a department.  My current work allows me to integrate (or shred) both strands of training; half of my teaching is in a house, outside the university altogether.  I am obsessed with the world and couldn’t plot my way out of a paper bag, both of which incline me toward nonfiction.  But I write weird because I stand against every gesture at the transparency or objectivity of language.  So by nonfiction, what I mean is: interdisciplinarity and intergenre work.

 See you Sunday at 8p

:::::Presenting at 17::::: 124 East 4th St #17  [1 & 2 Av] New York, NY 10003    5th floor walk-up, with AC.

Yours, Elise G

NEXT/ 18 September, Alexandra Chasin

SOON/ April Gertler, 16 October 2016

PREVIOUSLY/  Sanford Wintersberger, Tara Ruth, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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[21 August 2016 : Sanford Wintersberger] playing at overlays of performance, poetry, night-out fun with others, and emotion resonance—images and word prompts guided us through an Experimental Karaoke

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Wintersberger invited us to be players in his Karaoke 

by showing us some language...

then the poem like expanded usage, for us to grab at random...

with stage-cues of the emotion...

In roles by colors, we were free to improvise with a little or a lot of drama.

So we devised our own rhythms and choices in what became a theatrical cacophony of unresolved meaning. A curious evening with work-in-progress to outcomes partially invented by the audience/participants.

After we talked about the experience, Wintersberger shared some stories and images of past Karaoke nights, including one at La MaMa during the 39X17 show last year. 

Superman

Thank you for coming and special thanks to Sanford. See you next time. 

Yours, Elise G

NEXT/ 18 September 2016, Alexandra Chasin

SOON/ April Gertler, 16 October 2016

PREVIOUSLY/ Sanford Wintersberger,Tara Ruth, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty. 

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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SANFORD WINTERSBERGER : 21 AUGUST 2016 8PM

Fireside Meme: Experimental Karaoke

A presentation of EXPERIMENTAL GROUP KARAOKE followed by DRAMATIC KARAOKE PERFORMANCE VIDEOS—highlights from Sanford’s archive of Dramatic Karaoke Performance Videos, which he has made over the past seven years; including recent performances at La MaMa and Idea Salon.

I’m very happy to welcome (back) Sanford. We had to strike his originally booked evening last December—when just after 7PM, a thief came in and stole his laptop. Tried to catch him, but...

   http://sanfordkaraoke.tumblr.com/

Following images from, Won’t you be my neighbor?

Sanford:  “I’m fascinated by the overlap between scripted media / entertainment and random, real human interaction. Experimental Karaoke is my way of exploring this fascination.”

brief bio/

After graduating high school in Charlottesville, VA Sanford studied fine art at the Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris where he became acquainted with Conceptual and Performance Art. After completing his studies in Paris, he moved to Brooklyn, NY where he developed his personal style of participatory performance: Dramatic Karaoke. Sanford has exhibited in Charlottesville, VA; Miami FL;  New York, NY; Paris, France; Pusan, South Korea; Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina; Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Looking forward to you joining us, 8PM on Sunday 21 August.

:::::Presenting at 17::::: 

124 East 4th St #17 (1 & 2 Aves), New York, NY 10003  

5th floor walk-up with AC!

Thank you, Elise G

On 18 September 2016 / Alexandra Chasin 

PREVIOUSLY/  Tara Ruth, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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[19 June 2016 : Tara Ruth] The paintings are enriched by her intense practice in which Ruth “plays with a lot of things in the studio trying to different ways to approach information.”

There is often a literary basis to the work—as above in this drawing of Thomas Bernhard’s recorder.  Before he became a writer, Bernhard was an actor and would often speak his lines into his recorder, then listen, and erase, to speak/act again and record. He is the author of Correction the main character, an architect, builds a cone shaped structure in the forest as a home for his sister. He is in search of perfection, refines and rethinks/rewrites over and over. Some chapters consist of one sentence—revised. As any correction is a negation-- he eventually disappears into the text. 

An image of the Ninth Ward, New Orleans after Katrina. 

Ruth’s political and social concerns are part of her work, sometimes narratively visible at others—more hidden within painterly abstraction and mark-making. 

Looking along with Scout.

Thank you for coming and my special thanks to Tara Ruth.

Elise G

Next/ Sanford Wintersberger, 21 August 

PREVIOUSLY/ Tara Ruth, Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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TARA RUTH : 19 JUNE 2016, 8PM

My work is best described as being similar to a selection of short stories, with repeating interests into the investigation of what constitutes normal. Categories are superfluous and sources are wide-ranging. As an artist I practice to learn and retain the capacity to be influenced. I am always grateful when someone, a stranger or a friend, makes a connection or has a response to the work.

Glint, 2013, Oil, spray paint, charcoal, marker on canvas, 54” x 62"

Tara Ruth is a former Curator of the Interfaith Center of New York and Deputy Director of Dieu Donne Papermill.  She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Bard College.

The Mirror and the Cone, 2013, Acrylic, oil, marker on canvas, 40” x 40"

Looking forward to welcoming you on Sunday at 8, for Tara Ruth.

:::::Presenting at 17::::: 

124 East 4 Street, Apt #17 [1&2 Aves], New York, NY 10003, 5th floor walk-up

See you then, Elise G

PREVIOUSLY/ Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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[15 May 2016 : Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji] the next day a guest emailed       “...thank you for an artful, meditative, stirring, stimulating evening. I’m always inspired by artists experimenting and taking us to new and surprising places.”

And so it was.

Part musical experimentation part mystical wandering—all given from the heart and rooted in sound.

Earlier Sunday

Sara on one of several trips, this time bringing environmental elements for the evening

In-Direct-Connections.

Yukio setting up.

The room becomes.

Fallen leaves [as sound] at the entry.

As guests came in Yukio and Sara play.

We roam.

Galassini’s video, HER

Reminding me of a poetry slam—Sara ends the performance—singing-hard her Italian lyrics and making an additional rhythm by her drum.  

Now talking together, still within the happenings just shared—and explorations of possibilities. Performance, connections, opening to removing boundaries of body-mind-spirit and between performer & audience—within this constructed, just transversed space. 

Wonderful to have you with us. If you missed it, hope to see you on a coming Sunday.

My special thanks to Sara and Yukio. Yours, Elise G

Next/ Tara Ruth, 19 June 2016

PREVIOUSLY/ Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

39X17  http://presenting-at-17.tumblr.com/post/132534189823/39x17-october-2015-group-show-performances

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SARA GALASSINI with YUKIO TSUJI: 15 MAY 2016, 8PM

In-Direct-Connections

                           [REFLECT-I-ON, performance May 2015 / photo: Marie Noyale]

                                                  [Self-Portrait, marker on paper, 2013, 8 1/2 x 11]

www.saragalasband.org

https://www.facebook.com/SaraGalasYukioTsuji/

www.soundcloud.com/sara-galas

www.twitter.com/saragalasband

  [Solos, Sara Galassini, pastel, white-out, acrylic, on paper, 2011, 5 7/8 x 8 1/8]

                                          [Body of Clay, frame from Galassini video, HER, 2014]

                                                       [Clay, frame from Galassini video, HER, 2014]

                                            [Landscape, frame from Galassini video, HER, 2014]

                                                       [Tree, frame from Galassini video, HER, 2014]

            [Rose-eye, Sara Galassini, 2014, marker and pastel on paper, 8 1/2 x 11]

Galassini on her work/

I use every possible entry into my imaginary world and the invisible places where connections between the self and creativity take form. In my on-going practice these forms are often given to me and can manifest through melodies, words, movements and images. My passion and task as an artist is to find ways to link these languages and their meaning by creating poetic worlds of entrainment and transformation. Combining all these elements allows me to travel across the different voices of the self and sew a net of relationships.​ ​Improvisation is a big part of this process; it serves my explorations and it allows me to listen deeply and stay in the moment while performing.

                     [Unmeasureable Picture, performance, 2014 / photo: Paola Beretti]

Sara Galassini is an Italian, New York based actor, dancer, singer songwriter. Together with Yukio Tsuji she is the founder of the Sara Galas Band. Galassini is a member of La MaMa ETC’s Great Jones Rep. Company. Among the directors and companies she has worked with are the late Ellen Stewart, Federico Restrepo, Giorgio Albertazzi, Nu Dance Theater, Ping Chong & Company, the late Elizabeth Swados, Urban Research Theater, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Susana Cook, Tom Lee, Abla Khoury, Giancarlo Nanni, Sophie Bortolussi, and Adonis Volanakis. With composer, musician Yukio Tsuji she has conceived and performed 4 original works: Waves of all times,  Origin: a Performance Art Installation, Unmeasurable Picture, REFLECT-I-ON. Galassini has recently been certified for completing the Sound Music Institute practitioner-training course on sound healing.

YukioTsuji is a Japanese composer and musician from Tokyo. He has worked with Estelle Parsons, the late Ellen Stewart, the late Jerome Robbins, Julie Taymor, Sir Peter Hall, the late John Dexter, Andrei Serban, the late Elizabeth Swados, the Pan Asian Rep Company, and many other major theater directors and companies. He has been the house composer/musician for La MaMa ETC for nearly 30 years.

His composition credits include: more than twenty hours of compositions for Kei Takei Moving Earth Dance Company; the Broadway production of Salome, Oedipus, and Father with Al Pacino; the Broadway production of M. Butterfly; the title music of the movie Year of the Dragon; the main theme show Window of the City for the 2012 Shanghai Expo.

                             [Shaman, Sara Galassini, 2013, pastel on paper, 5 7/8 x 8 1/2]

Galassini on her P17 evening/

I intend to explore a variety of possibilities in performance to help me connect with the self and the audience; to try new ideas and find new ways to create that are outside of my comfort zone. My objective is to use the setting of Presenting at 17 to widen the boundaries of body-mind-spirit, and the given environment.

In my artistic path I have been blessed with the teachings of incredible artists and mentors like composer, musician Yukio Tsuji, whose collaboration has highly influenced my artistic sense. ​I am delighted to have him join me on May 15th to help me create atmospheres through sound, as he only knows how to do.

                                      [In.Cite, performance November 2015 / photo: Joey Liu]          

Looking forward to welcoming you at 8PM on Sunday 15 May for Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji. Thank you, Elise G

:::::Presenting at 17::::: 124 East 4th Street #17 (1 & 2 Av), New York, NY 10003  5th floor walk-up.  

PREVIOUSLY/ Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity.                   James Baldwin

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[17 April 2016 : Erin O’Brien] with images of recent paintings and a detailed description of her process, O’Brien led us through her practice and its underlying structure.

A few years ago O’Brien experienced a temporary physical limitation on her ability to make paintings, She began to take photographs, not as works in themselves—but as a way to continue to look and select. Later when she recovered she worked from template shapes she identified within the photos. Meticulously proceeding in this new way O’Brien has been developing her very personalized abstractions.

Some of the photographs that became source material for shapes and sense of intimate space that shaped O’Brien’s paintings/

Conversation and more paintings/

Many thanks for joining us. My special thank you to Erin. Elise G.

NEXT/ Sara Galassini with Yukio Tsuji, 15 May 

PREVIOUSLY/ Erin O’Brien, Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

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ERIN O’BRIEN : 17 APRIL 2016, 8PM Erin will discuss the development of her current work.

erinobrienstudio.com

Cipher, acrylic on muslin, 20 inches x16 inches

Long Echo, acrylic on linen, 20 inches x16 inches

Division, acrylic on linen, 20 inches x16 inches

Erin on her work/

My paintings arise from a feeling of intimacy with a place or another person, or often, both. Their compositions are built from shapes I observe in the world, combined and reconfigured into spatial conundrums that explore, but don’t resolve, the dualities of figure and ground, absence and presence. The paintings are small in scale, echoing their origins in intimacy and foregrounding their material fact as both images and objects.

New Problem, acrylic on linen, 20 inches x 16 inches

Brief bio/

Erin O’Brien is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (New York), LaMama Galleria (New York), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Samson Projects (Boston), Bernard Toale Gallery (Boston), Green Street Gallery (Boston), Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia), among others. Her drawings were included in the FlipFile at Regina Rex and the Flatfile at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and featured in the online journal Sixth Finch. Her work has been reviewed in Art Practical, Artslant Chicago, and the Boston Globe, and an interview with her will appear in a forthcoming volume from Soberscove Press. O’Brien is the recipient of residency fellowships from Weir Farm Art Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art.

Bartleby, acrylic on linen, 20 inches x16 inches

Looking forward to welcoming you on Sunday at 8p for Erin’s night.

Thank you. Elise G

Presenting at 17 

124 East 4th Street (1 & 2 Aves) #17, New York, NY  / 5th floor walk-up

NEXT/ 15 May, Sara Galassini

PREVIOUSLY/ Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

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[20 March 2016 : Chuyen Huynh] had very recently returned from Vietnam and her studies of energy healing

LIGHT WORK / INSTALLATIONS

Chu finds corners and spaces that no one really notices and then “puts something there.” She works with simple, inexpensive materials—paper, cardboard, tape, house paint. For her this is making the best of what she has, using what is at hand and making something exceptional within and out of the ordinary. 

When the show is over or the space must be relinquished, she removes her intervention and Chu relishes the dismantling of the installation. She does it quickly and with a delight. In about two hours, she pulls it down, takes it off, and then throws it all away.

This work has the spirit of sand painting, Meticulously made, transformative and then disappeared.

Chuyen Huynh is creator and destroyer.

SHADOW WORK / DRAWINGS 

She described her process of making the drawing-collages as quick and intuitive work. It’s impulsive as she lays down pastel and then erases to make negative space and begins “to see, what it is trying to show (her).”  

Chu has vivid dreams often related to her childhood in Vietnam and the imagery in the drawings reflects this dreamscape of forms, presence, and emotion. 

With a video clip Chu introduced Teal Swan  http://tealswan.com/ in whom she has found “a favorite and inspiring teacher.” Swan’s message resonates with Chu and a growing awareness of the interconnections between her mediums—installations [LIGHT WORK] as “positive focus” and drawings [SHADOW WORK] as “negative focus.” All as a “healing” [unification] process.

Chu’s work in both mediums runs in parallel timeframes, as she goes from one to the other and back--and again. This trail is synthesis, not only of practice, but also of being. 

Installations & conscious. 

Drawings & subconscious. 

Working in both not as separate paths, but creating harmony, wholeness.

I’m happy you were here with us, and special thanks to Chu. Elise G

NEXT/ Erin O’Brien, 17 April 2016

PREVIOUSLY/ Chuyen Huynh, G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

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CHUYEN HUYNH : 20 MARCH 2016,  8PM

Light Work/Shadow Work

Radiator Surfer, cardboard, fabric, house paint, black duct tape, color acetate sheet, 10 feet x 12 feet x 14 feet. A bedroom-turn-studio installation that merges the house radiator into one with the landscape. 2011

Children of The Vines, pastel & graphite on paper, 64 inches x 41 inches, 2015

Jellyfish Invasion, pastel & graphite on paper, 35 inches x 23 inches, 2014

Huynh on her work/

Light Work:

My installations strive to incite a sense of dislocation by deconstructing spaces to reflect shadows, memories of unfamiliar landscapes, interrupted vistas, and unexpected obstacles.

They are about the zen of seeing abundance within scarcity and the exceptional within the ordinary through minimal, basic use of materials.

Shadow Work:

I aim to explore a visual state of union between multi-cultural fabled anecdotes, surreal narratives, and the role of anthropocentrism in the contemporary cosmic world.

In my drawings, a variety of characters carry out individual ventures and experiences. There are no central roles; only participants performing a conceptual play of free association and speculation. All contribute to a singular theme: uncanny visions of parallel spaces in time.

Iceberg, cardboard, canvas, house paint, tape, hot glue, fishing line, wire, 10 feet x 25 feet x 20 feet. Implies a cut piece of iceberg from the arctic pasted on the gallery space at Taller Boricua, Harlem, 2010

Chaotic Order, cardboard, house paint, fishing line, window screen, tape, hot glue, 10 feet x 10 feet x 8 feet. The sensation of watching the chaotic cityscape in a hot and humid summer night. 2010

Danger! High Voltage, tape, cardboard, house paint, canvas, wire, 12 feet x 15 feet x 7 feet. Taller Boricua gallery space infrastructure is turned into a 2-d comical perspective of a fire house. Every pipe and light switch is utilized. 2011

The Meaning of Green, pastel & graphite on paper, 22 inches x 28 inches, 2014

At The End Of The Rainbow, pastel and graphite on paper, 22 inches x 28 inches, 2014

Chuyen is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. She just came back from a long trip abroad to learn alternative healing. You can read/see more of her visual works.

www.chuyenmhuynh.com

http://expandeddrawingpractices.blogspot.com/2015/12/interview-chuyen-huynh.html

Breaking Into The Blue, pastel and graphite on paper, 15.5 inches x 19.5 inches, 2013

It’s A Bear’s Life, pastel & graphite on paper, 22 inches x 28 inches, 2014

Please come on Sunday March 20th for Chu Huynh. Elise G

Life's A Brick, plastic sheets, cardboard, house paint, tape, glue. Shop window installation at Apt 141, NYC, 2014

PREVIOUSLY/ G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

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[21 February 2016 : G Todd Haun]   To be in a small room with 99++ paintings and their maker, looking, touching, talking, passing them around— was a gut experience of the activity of artmaking.

It began with a smallish canvas bag placed on the table

Sneak preview for early arrival guest Shanna Maurizi [P17, July 2013]

G Todd Haun emptying the bag of its paintings.

Painter Catharina Cosin comments on Todd’s work

chooses a specific painting

explains its exquisite characteristics

then breaks ecstatic. 

Thank you for coming. With my special thanks to G Todd Haun / Yours, Elise G

NEXT/ Chuyen Huynh 20 March 2016

PREVIOUSLY/ G Todd Haun, Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

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G TODD HAUN : 21 FEBRUARY 2016

#99paintings

Rocker,  Acrylic on canvas, 9x9 inches, 2016

These 99, small, acrylic, abstract paintings are a return to the figure. The work expresses my reasoning with why to continue the practice of painting in 2016.

Satan, Acrylic on canvas, 9x9 inches, 2016

Porch, Acrylic on canvas, 9x9 inches, 2016

G Todd Haun

Gallery Coordinator/Garden Designer/Interiors Vermont Studio Center

BFA East Tennessee State University

MFA California College of Arts

Instagram@johnsonvermont

Looking forward to welcoming you for Presenting at 17 on Sunday 2/21, 8PM for G Todd and his 99 paintings.

With good wishes on the Lunar New Year ... of the Monkey, Elise G

72, Acrylic on canvas, 9x9 inches, 2016

The poet or revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity. James Baldwin

NEXT/ Chuyen Huynh 20 March 2016

THEN/ 17 April, Erin O’Brien

PREVIOUSLY/ Charles Eladio Beronio, Alexandra Phillips, Samuael Topiary, Frank Meuschke, David Mramor/Enid Ellen with Greg Potter, Michelle, Handelman, John Zhao, Mary Walling Blackburn with Danny Hammond, Betsy Alwin, Jane Weissman, Mary Patten, Amy Finkbeiner, Jessica Watson, Boo Boo Cousins and guest-Diana Cherin, Matthew Morrocco with Shaun Fletcher, Brittney Hollinger, Sarah Rushford, Laura Napier, Branden Koch, Jennifer Hayashida, Bill Johnson, Guillermo E. Brown, Christine Heindl, Jonathan VanDyke & Diane Cook, Shanna Maurizi, Robert Appleton, Dana Hoey, Megan Michalak, Julia Shirar, Christopher Carroll, Bobby Abate, Angie Waller, and Cecilia Dougherty.

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