Her distinctively bold style harnesses the flux and simultaneity that has come to define life in the 21 st century. The effect is information overload, balanced with a kind of spontaneous order, where time and space are compressed and identity is interchangeable. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives. Nina Chanel Abney combines representation and abstraction to capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. School of Art and Design Students Visit Animal Farm Selected Resources Inspired by Animal Farm Laska’s band, I.U.D., has performed at international venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, The Brant Foundation, The Kitchen, ISSUE Project Room, Astrup Fearnley and the Kunsthalle Zürich. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, White Columns, Marlborough Gallery, Zürcher Gallery and Harper’s Books. Laska’s work has been shown internationally, with solo shows at CANADA, New York Office Baroque, Brussels KS Art, New York and Galerie Bernard Ceysson, in Paris, Luxembourg and Geneva. She received her MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2014. Sadie Laska is a visual artist and musician living in Queens, New York. Penck, Joyce Pensato, Carol Rama, Tyson Reeder, Peter Saul, Bill Saylor, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Spencer Sweeney, Henry Taylor, Don Van Vliet and Sue Williams. Copley, Thronton Dial, Jason Fox, Keith Haring, Wally Hedrick, Lonnie Holley, Sadie Laska, Chris Martin, Jeanette Mundt, Laura Owens, A.R. Nina Chanel Abney, Rita Ackermann, Alex Bag, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Katherine Bernhardt, Lizzi Bougatsos, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Bread and Puppet Theater, William N. The opening reception will also feature live musical performances by Lonnie Holley and LOBOTOMAXXX. The Honey Badgers-a musical group consisting of artists Jack Hanley, Phil Grauer, Tyson Reeder, and Michael Mahalchick-will activate Sarah Braman’s large-scale sculpture with a musical performance. The lobster sat and dreamed of cold water, eyes glistening.Īdditional elements of the exhibition include a curated selection of puppets and theatrical banners in the foundation’s Library space, exhibited in collaboration with Bread and Puppet Theater. The sparrow freaked and flew into a window. “THE PUPPETS ARE CRIMINALS WHO MESS UP YOUR MINERALS,” they sang upward, as the water slowly boiled. First, the sound of a guitar, then three actors began to dance in a pot of green flickering liquid. The lobster sat on the ground in front, the sparrow just behind. Three fish wore toad masks on a stage under a dissected pickup truck. One day, the lobster went to a thing: a play. If Peter Saul used Mad magazine to depict our manic empire, then Henry Taylor’s paintings of his friends also speak in cartoon. As Thornton Dial shredded once-valuable metal to make a flag, Alex Bag shredded the nature documentary to make a feminist declaration of war. Mass fantasy became an escape, an identity, then a commodity and finally a language. This history is as material as iron itself, a product of many rooted relations. “Pop,” as a category, was a reaction, to a changing economy and the creation of an industrial entertainment culture. Visited Providence for Joe, introduced Chris Martin to glitter, Angel Blood at Santos, TV when possible, on a rug from Bernhardt. Matt Groening said “Beefheart begat Bart,” and the lobster could see it. He was an adjunct at SVA, wrote at night with JMB kissed Haring and met Pensato at the studio school. The lobster hung at William Copley’s gallery on Broadway. The lobster had been through Reagan and Koch, Clinton and the other guy made one enemy, that sparrow seen it all loved painting. “Do your pinchers not pinch?” “Yes!” the lobster growled. “This town I love would serve me up with butter,” he exclaimed, and the sparrow mocked him from above. Home BrewĪ certain lobster strolled Delancey, antennae out, claws in pockets, eyes ahead. Copley, Wally Hedrick, Joyce Pensato, Carol Rama, Peter Saul, Josh Smith, Spencer Sweeney, Henry Taylor and Sue Williams. Artists in Animal Farm include 1980s pop icons from the collection, such as Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, alongside artists whose work has been influenced by pop, politics and media, such as Nina Chanel Abney, Katherine Bernhardt, Lizzi Bougatsos, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, William N. Beginning Sunday, May 14, 2017, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center will present a group exhibition curated by Sadie Laska, including works from The Brant Collection and loans from museums, galleries and other private collections.
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