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charisjcarmichaelbraun · 3 years

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Recumbent: The Art of Lying

I am delighted to share that a very recent work of mine has been curated into Equity Gallery’s “Recumbent: The Art of Lying” exhibition in New York, on view September 8th— October 2nd, 2021.

There is an Outdoors Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9th, 6 — 8 PM at 245 Broome St., NYC*

New York Artists Equity Association is pleased to present their latest juried group exhibition, “Recumbent: The Art of Lying.” The show, juried by the founder of Two Coats of Paint, Sharon Butler, artist Judy Glantzman, and figurative artist and art writer Daniel Maidman. Over 20 artworks focus on the reclining body, one of the most popular and ubiquitous figurative positions in art history. This visual motif is firmly embedded within both Western and Eastern traditions, conjuring up a wealth of associations, which can vary greatly in meaning depending on time, place, and context.

Each of the artworks selected for this exhibition successfully re-invents and re-evaluates the trope of the reclining figure. The featured artworks explore a range of themes, including pleasure and sensuality, such as Tiantian Ma’s “Jackie With My Painting.” Others display unflinching, subversive examinations of culturally ingrained iconography originating from religion, mythology, and antiquity such as Manju Shandler’s “Medusa Column.” Also on exhibit are contemporary recontextualizations and reinventions of the classic pose, as seen in Rachael Warner’s “The Hostess,” and much more. Brought together by the unifying theme of the body in repose, the artworks in “Recumbent: The Art of Lying” create a comprehensive survey to how a single gesture is able to encompass and convey a complex and nuanced collection of cultural ideas and attitudes.

Exhibiting Artists: Cecilia André, Alaiyo Bradshaw, Petey Brown, Julia Campisi, Charis J. Carmichael Braun, Jenny Carpenter, Jeanne Ciravolo, Srishti Dass, Carol Diamond, Camilla Fallon, Patrice Lorenz, Tiantian Ma, Juliet Martin, Nina Meledandri, Alison Mustokoff, David Reisman, Cynthia Reynolds, Manju Shandler, Sylvia Vander Sluis, Rachael Warner, Brenda Zlamany

Juried by: Sharon Butler, Judy Glantzman, Daniel Maidman

*In the interest of safeguarding our community members, Equity Gallery manages access to its space and invites visitors to follow CDC and NY State Guidelines. To that end Equity Gallery is hosting an opening reception in their courtyard space; RSVP via Eventbrite to attend!

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newstfionline · 7 years

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An Assassin’s Tool Kit: When Guns Are Not Enough

By Yonette Joseph and Richard Pérez-Peña, NY Times, March 17, 2018

In the ruthless worlds of espionage, global politics and the criminal underground, there are many grim ways to die:

Tea laced with polonium. A face full of the nerve agent VX. A gentleman’s umbrella that shoots ricin pellets.

Sometimes the assassination attempts leave a mystery in their wake, as in the case of the Russian double agent Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, who were poisoned by a type of military-grade nerve agent called Novichok in Salisbury, England, this month.

The episode set off a diplomatic row between Britain and Russia, and is one in a long line of dastardly plots that have captured the public’s imagination. Here is a selection, and the deadly implements deployed.

Ice Ax to the Head. Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary who created the Soviet Red Army, saw himself as Lenin’s heir, but when Lenin died, he was outflanked by Stalin in the power struggle that followed.

Trotsky fled into exile and ended up in a leafy suburb of Mexico City in 1940, where an agent of Stalin paid him a visit. The assassin, Ramón Mercader, got into Trotsky’s study with a shortened mountaineering pick hidden under his clothes. When Trotsky turned his back, he buried it in Trotsky’s cranium. The Russian died the next day, Aug. 21.

Killer Clowns. Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix, a Mexican drug kingpin and former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, was celebrating at a birthday party when he was felled by armed men dressed as clowns.

The drug lord had hobnobbed with celebrities and sports stars, and his family, known as the Arellano Félix clan, was said to have inspired the film “Traffic.”

At the birthday party at a rented beach house in Los Cabos, Mexico, in 2013, assassins with red noses and bright orange wigs mingled among 100 guests. Footage of the scene captures Mr. Arellano Félix’s last moments. As two bands played and a man sang, the clowns began shooting.

“He was hit by two bullets, one in the chest and one in the head,” Isai Arias, a Baja California state government official, said at the time. Mr. Arellano Félix died at 63. The clowns escaped.

Spiked Toothpaste. Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was a champion of African unity and of self-determination for his own country, which had been colonized by Belgium.

But Western governments, which had big stakes in his nation, wanted his head. (The United States, which was believed to have used uranium from Congolese mines for the Hiroshima atomic bomb, feared the charismatic Congolese politician would become an African Fidel Castro.)

The C.I.A. considered poisoning his toothpaste. “I was totally taken aback,” Larry Devlin, a former C.I.A. officer, recalled in The New York Times in 2008 about being handed the toxic toothpaste in 1960 to carry out the assassination. He stalled, believing that the killing would have had “disastrous” global effects, he said.

Mr. Lumumba was deposed in 1960. He fled but was captured, tortured and killed by Congolese fighters on Jan. 17, 1961. His murder is considered one of the most important assassinations of the 20th century; it took place seven months after Congo won independence.

Nerve Agent in the Ear, and Face. Most do not see the attacks coming.

Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader, perished after getting the nerve agent VX in his face at a Malaysian airport in February 2017, when he was set upon by two women who later said they had been recruited for what they were told was a prank.

The Hamas leader Khaled Meshal was targeted in September 1997 by Mossad agents who sprayed poison on his skin. The plot failed after Israel handed over the antidote.

Two men waited until he was about to enter his office in Amman before one walked up and tried to spray a lethal nerve toxin on his neck, but missed and got him in his ear. He later said that a shivering sensation raced down his spine “like an electric shock.”

At the hospital, the Hamas leader was given two days to live. A furious King Hussein of Jordan demanded that Israel provide the antidote, saying the Mossad agents could otherwise face execution. In an extraordinary move, Israel had an agent hand it over, saving Mr. Meshal’s life.

A Camera Bomb. Gen. Ahmed Shah Massoud, an Afghan warlord, was assassinated in 2001 by two men posing as journalists. They entered his headquarters in the Panjshir Valley in northern Afghanistan, where General Massoud sat on a couch. The “reporter” detonated a bomb strapped to his waist. The “cameraman” set off a bomb hidden in the camera and ran from the room, jumping into the River Oxus, but the general ‘s bodyguards pulled him out and killed him.

A Deadly Umbrella. The dissident writer Georgi Markov defected from his communist homeland of Bulgaria in 1969 to start a new life in London, where he became a reporter for the BBC.

Waiting to catch a bus to work on Waterloo Bridge on Sept. 7, 1978, he felt a sharp pain on the back of his right thigh but continued on to work. He developed a fever, was admitted to a hospital in South London and died four days later.

An inquiry revealed someone had used a specially adapted umbrella to inject a pellet containing the poison ricin into his leg. The culprit was later identified as a Bulgarian spy, Francesco Gullino, a.k.a. Agent Piccadilly.

The Men Who Would Not Die. Two figures stand out in assassination lore: Fidel Castro, the Cuban strongman, and Rasputin, the wild-eyed, deeply reviled monk who influenced Russia’s last czar.

The attempts on Castro’s life included:

• A contaminated skin-diving suit: According to a summary of the C.I.A.’s assassination plots, an American lawyer, James B. Donovan, was to give Castro a contaminated skin-diving suit while the two negotiated for the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners.

“The C.I.A. plan was to dust the inside of the suit with a fungus producing Madura foot, a disabling and chronic skin disease, and also contaminating the suit with tuberculosis bacilli in the breathing apparatus,” the document states.

The lawyer chose instead to give Castro a clean skin-diving suit “as a gesture of friendship,” and the modified one never left the laboratory.

• A booby-trapped seashell: C.I.A. experts were asked to consider packing a seashell with explosives, so that it could be left in one of Castro’s favored diving haunts, rigged to kill him if he picked it up.

“It was determined that there was no shell in the Caribbean area large enough to hold a sufficient amount of explosive which was spectacular enough to attract the attention of Castro,” the documents say.

• Fatal cigars: The plan was to put a botulinum toxin into a box of his favorite cigars. The cigars were delivered in 1961--but never reached Castro.

• Botulism, again: Marita Lorenz told Vanity Fair in 1993 that as Castro’s lover in 1959, she was recruited to assassinate him by dropping two botulism-toxin pills into his drink. She had reservations, and then found out that by putting the pills in a cold-cream jar, she had spoiled them. She said the wily Castro had her all shook up, anyway:

“He leaned over, pulled out his .45, and handed it to me. He didn’t even flinch. And he said, ‘You can’t kill me. Nobody can kill me.’ And he kind of smiled and chewed on his cigar … I felt deflated. He was so sure of me. He just grabbed me. We made love.”

Rasputin, who had gained enormous influence in the court of Nicholas II with his claims to healing powers, survived several assassination attempts before an elaborate conspiracy unfolded in December 1916 to kill him once and for all.

Prince Felix Yusupov invited him to Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg, where he was fed cake laced with potassium cyanide and copious amounts of cyanide-spiked Madeira--but did not die.

He was shot, but ran. He was shot again and again. Some reports say the conspirators even stabbed him. Finally, he was thrown into a car and driven to Petrovski Island, where he was dropped into the Neva River and drowned.

#assassins #assassinations

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nyu-arteducation-2017-blog · 7 years

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Although the goal for the diversity of the student population is to increase, we look first and foremost at each individual student in an effort to recognize their unique strengths and challenges and provide modified instruction with entry points for all students needs.

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229greenkill · 7 years

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Vision Quest Seven, currated by Richard Kirk Mills , will open on August 5, 2017, First Saturday from 5 to 7 pm. The exibition will be from August 5 through August 27, 2017.

Richard Kirk Mills, “Studio Door?, 2015, Oil on linen, 36″h x 32″w, $1800

Richard Kirk Mills, “Solar Shades”, 2017, Oil on panel, 12″h x 13 1/8″w, $500

Richard Kirk Mills, “Brush Creek and the Little Delaware”, 2016, Oil on panel, 23″h x 24″w, $1200

Some notes from Richard Kirk Mills

I found myself in unfamiliar territory when asked by David Schell, the visioner behind Green Kill to gather painters for an exhibit. I’m trying to become a painter myself, not a curator.

My inclination is to look at painters around me for inspiration and support.

Not really a theme show person, I selected people who start from observation of the natural world and go from there.

So here in my view are six extraordinary upstaters who start with perhaps some similar impulses, often in similar environs and end up in very different places.

I am happy to introduce them to each other, though full disclosure – the group includes two couples – and I look forward to the dialogues their work sets up.

They extend traditions and articulate personal visions. All are in search of something: peace, wholeness, release, the sublime, the transcendence of the every day, maybe just a good days’ work. No virtual stuff here: it’s all natural colored dirt. Their natures run deep and with great character. And they’ve been at it for a long time.

Scott, Kathmann and Lorenz frequently share an immersion in the woods, among the trees, their great friends. That is, one feels surrounded; in, a part of. Morris and Maguire pull us back to a vantage point perhaps embedded in their English and Irish genes where we can again imagine and dream. And Contes gives us the heat of the sun, refracted into searing color. Like Greece in August, not much shade.

Artists

Victoria Scott’s woods are a domestic idyll: trees, tilting ground and a studio clinging like a birdhouse to a sleep slope, another layer the soft curves of the western Catskills. Scattered about are more or less permanent easels; brightly painted perches. She works ceaselessly outdoors and indoors by a single window in the coldest weather. Her studio is lit by a string of white Christmas bulbs. Her work ranges beyond the idyll into symbolism, though the woodland paintings – in the hundreds – suggest a near psychedelic quest to see and feel every possible arrangement of changing light and pattern. Pinks, blues, green and grey are forever shifting shapes. Paraphrasing Peter Schjeldahl of another original, “she keeps her own counsel”. And that’s a good thing.

Kathmann, the peripatetic, always comes home. Home to the family farm and the woods in the western Catskills. From Brooklyn, Chicago, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Medellin Columbia, Georgia, New Hampshire and Maine. From street theater to Tamarind’s litho workshop, large scale drawings and intimate paintings, Richard’s marks are like musical notation; nature’s song, observed, abstracted, embraced and very personal. If you can imagine Lois Dodd on one shoulder and Jake Berthot on the other. Richard seems from the East, a green sage, an angel perhaps.

Patrice Lorenz’s immersion is complete: emotional, expressive and visceral. Her best work is near, kinetic; you’re ensnared in wind, movement, brambles, tree branches, you’re prone in a bed of flowers. But it’s paint, pastel, gesture, arm – It’s allover, top to bottom sensuality. Nature and painting merge in a felt unity. And she’s not afraid to go to the point of almost losing it. The good kind of improvised explosive device. You can feel her working something out.

Wayne Morris’ subtle yet powerful landscape studies seem faraway as if seen through time or memory. Like a detail glimpsed through Morandi’s binoculars.

Mist, a patch of snow, a slash of valley green, the dull warm brown of massed trees thinking about leaf-out, a rooftop shape, all drawn close for us upon a united flat surface. A local realtor says there’s magic in these Catskill mountains. These small tonal gems go beyond that. Morris paints large too: figures, interiors, with a meditative light. A calm interiority infuses all the work, a bulwark against worldly agitation, no doubt a hard fought battle. This dude abides.

Anna Contes. Too bad Josef Albers was such a square. Had he studied with Contes, he’d know much more about how color feels. She maintains a cool control of really hot stuff. The heat of her native Ikaria Greece vibrates through flowers, figures, fruit, gourds and the Catskill landscape. Contes makes her own pastels, works in oil and egg tempera. Cobalt violet sizzles next to yellow orange, magenta and cerise vibrating with cerulean. A hot pink toned ground launches a tree dancing amid fire. Better wear sunscreen. She has a broad range of formats and goes from the single centered icon to overall marks, from broad flat pattern to pointillist facture.

Doug Maguire’s modernism is sublime, but how does that jibe? If you took Milton Avery’s simplified shapes and asked Thomas Cole to flesh out the details what century would you be in? Maguire’s landscapes are what you see when you close your eyes and imagine “landscape painting”. These are in a grand tradition:

large, sweeping, panoramic visions singled out for us to believe again in the power of earth, sky and water. His natural resources as a painter give us back what the Hudson River School painters warned us about: the disappearance of our natural resources. Look up, look down, look across. God may just be everywhere in the details.

As for me, I’m trying to be content with the every day details. A view out the window, a corner of the studio, the back yard garden, a neighbors house or barn, paintings on a wall, the light on a meadow, the heat of summer. The trick is, how to make it work as a painting? My disciplined and accomplished cohort here are an inspiration for me to just keep looking and working the colored dirt.

Rick Mills

Vision Quest Seven Vision Quest Seven, currated by Richard Kirk Mills , will open on August 5, 2017, First Saturday from 5 to 7 pm.

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