Holiday Affordable Art Sale

Special Holiday Affordable Fine Art Sale

Just in Time for the Holidays!
In these uncertain times, Art is more important than ever
We, at Slate Gallery, wanted to make sure the best art was available at any price range this holiday season. So just in time we have gathered amazing works, in two price ranges, under $500 and under $2500! Of course, our other gallery offerings are available, and many large works can be acquired for $8000 and under. We will be open regularly on Saturdays only --or by appt-- until XMAS, hope to see you soon!

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DECORATED PAINT BRUSH BY MR IMAGINATION $500.

Call and Response

Here is more work from an ongoing series between visual artist Wennie Huang and poet Ed Go.














Ed Go and Wennie Huang Word Image Collaboration. This shows Ed's textual response to Wennie's image from the previous week. The repeating texts are blue (for sky), porkchop (in red), and earth (which also reads as heart).












This work shows Wennie's response to Ed's textual work from the previous week, where I locate the letters b-l-o-o-d from (bl)ue and p(o)rkch(op) - the upside down p of porkchop reading as the letter "d". I've inscribed this response by piercing the paper as a tracing isolating these letters in the same position as they appear in Ed's textual work.












The final image shows Ed's response to the previous week's work where she shrank two 8 x 8 drawings 50% and copied them side by side as if they were pages of a book. Here, Ed has added a crossword puzzle background, implying a setting, using some words from those drawings he had previously extrapolated from the Internet, and linking them with new words.

From Istanbul to New York City

First exhibited in Istanbul Turkey at the Pera Museum, Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art will be on display at the Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, located at 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10001. The exhibition features a work by Brooklyn artist Taney Roniger whose Stones and Cipher series that juxtaposes organic and mechanical, natural and artificial environments was the basis for an exhibition last March at Slate Gallery.

The exhibition will be on view from November 24 - December 23, 2009
The opening reception will be on Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6-8pm.

From the exhibition webpage:
"Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art," curated by BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker and faculty member Peter Hristoff, is a survey of 111 works by 66 artists from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), offering a multi-generational response to current trends in contemporary artistic practice. The selected works reflect the preponderance of available influences in a global, media-driven society, where technology allows for instantaneous transmission of culture and access to an enormous data bank of shared images and ideas. Suzanne Anker explains, "In our global world where the familiar can seem foreign and the foreign sometimes overtly familiar, borders have become exceedingly porous between cultures and communities. 'Octet' presents an amalgam of stylistic concerns as a way to present the dynamic flow of advancing patterns within the visual arts."

"Octet" is divided into eight thematic sections: Word and Image; Identity and Identity Politics; Post Pop Art and Tabloid Culture; The Corporeal and Divine; Material Matters; Narrative Imperatives; World Dramas; and Relational Aesthetics."

About Taney Roniger's work:
"Word and Image examines visual articulations of language, as in Stephen Ellis's They Feed the Lion, an interpretation of the last stanza of a poem by Philip Levine, and Taney Roniger's Stone Series (Scroll), which explores the commonalities of organic forms and digital language"


Taney Roniger
Stone Series (Scroll), 2007
Oil on polymer on canvas
70 x 30 x 2 inches

Mr. Imagination Honored by Intuit

Intuit's Annual Benefit Gala was held on October 24th, at The Warehouse at Carmichael's in Chicago. This year's theme was Dreams & Nightmares, a unique experience achieved with the help of Redmoon Theater. Intuit honored the Atlanta based Mr. Imagination by presenting him with the Visionary Award.


The following photographs from the Gala are courtesy of Fred Hickler of Fisheye Media, and Intuit:

Bernard Williams in Residence

Thanks to support from the Visual Artists Network, Chicago artist Bernard Williams will be in residence with Legion Arts November 9th through Nov 14th. His week-long residency will include an artist talk, open studio, reception and artist brunch.

On Tuesday, Nov 10th at 7 pm, Williams will present a talk and slide show about his work at the African-American Museum of Iowa, located at 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids. The event is free and open to the public.During his Cedar Rapids residency, Williams will be making a new piece of sculpture in the main gallery at CSPS, 1103 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids. The public may meet Williams and watch his work in progress Wednesday and Thursday during normal gallery hours, 11 am to 6 pm.

On Friday, Nov. 13th at 5 p.m., Williams will be on hand to discuss his residency project at a public reception at CSPS. Williams will also attend the artist brunch Saturday, Nov. 14th at 10 a.m. at CSPS. All area artists are welcome.

Other artists featured in the Translations exhibit include Cynthia Beth Rubin and Bob Gluck, New Haven; John Giorno, New York City; Clive Leung, Washington DC; and Ignatius Widiapradja, Des Moines.

Nov 9 through 14 | 2009
CSPS and other locations | Cedar Rapids
Free admission

The image below is from Legion Arts, a small art where Buffalo Chart will be on display through December 2009.

Charles Koegel

Charles Koegel focuses on the inspiration he gets from New York City's architectural environment in his paintings. When his paintings are installed in homes, offices or any other architectural structure it is evident that Charles uses his artwork as means to document as well as embellish the distinctiveness of each setting. Here we can see examples that reflect his artistic statement in the images of Charles' paintings installed in Northside Piers luxory condos here in Williamsburg.

Wennie Huang: Installations and Collaborations

Wennie Huang's recent installation at Gowanus Studio Space :


















Wennie has been collaborating with Brooklyn poet, Ed Go. They produce one or two new images weekly:





The medium varies week to week, but usually for the drawings by Wennie, it's graphite or red colored pencil while Ed usually uses the inkjet printer - but Wennie also uses a printer for some images as well. While Ed's part of the collaboration is typically text-based, and Wennie's tends to me more about the image, the collaborators go back and forth sometimes. The size is 8 x 8 inches on either stonehenge drawing paper, or watercolor paper, or sometimes even just printer paper.

Artist Talk With Karen Margolis

The Slate Gallery celebrates its fourth year with Karen Margolis' The State Of All Things an exhibition of new mixed media work. The exhibition will be up from October 23rd, 2009 to November 22nd, 2009. Join us for an artist talk and reception with Karen Margolis on Friday, November 13, from 6-8pm.

Karen Margolis
Detail from IN SITU - 2007-09
acrylic on polyester paper - 75x45 inches

Bernard Williams in Remix

Bernard Williams speaks about his artwork in the Remix exhibition @ AGO at the Musee des beaux-arts de l’Ontario.



Bernard William’s installation “Buffalo Chart” combines popular and cultural iconography in the form of individual black cut outs resembling silhouettes. Together the work presents a pictographic alternative interpretation of the history of America. A variation of "Buffalo Chart" was exhibited at Slate Gallery in "Nighty-Nite," his first solo show in New York City. Recently, a variation of Buffalo Chart was exhibited in REMIX: New Modernities in a Post Indian World, at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York, and at the Musee des beaux-arts de l’Ontario.

Bernard Williams @ Socrates Sculpture Park

Bernard Williams at Socrates Sculpture Park.

John Kindness @ 'Source' Library and Arts Centre

'Herakles and the Stymphalian Birds' piece was commissioned for the 'Source' library and Arts Centre in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. In the launch shot, John is on the right with two Irish writers, Dennis O'Driscoll, centre and Ciaran Carson, left. 'Source' is a new building by award winning architects McCullough Mulvin. The piece is a reworking of the Herakles painting showed at Slate Gallery. Both works are based on an attic vase painting of Herakles and the Stymphalian Birds. This time the birds form a brief history of writing from cuneiform to offset litho. It is more to do with the appearance and technology of the texts rather than their literary content. Herakles is again made up from the detritus of a contemporary fly tipping site. He is the denizen of a sort of D.I.Y. heaven, a book-free domestic bliss.

'Herakles and the Stymphalian Birds', enamel paint, oil and gold leaf on zinc.

Detail of Herakles.

Miriam Cabessa at Pulse 2009

Featured artist @ Pulse 2009

Video taken at Pulse, NY in March 2009.

JAMA on Youtube

JAMA video was broadcast on channel 51 in a program about dreams:


Mural restoration in Cuba:


Pool project:

Taney Roniger in Istanbul

Taney Roniger recently exhibited at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the exhibition: Octet: Selections from the School of Visual Arts.

A review of the show is featured on the Turkish webpage Today’s Zaman.

Mr. Imagination, "The Art of Window Shopping"

Photographs of Mr. Imagination's artwork previously displayed with the American Visionary Art Museum's in Bergdorf Goodman's windows in June and July 2009.

All Images are by Julia Chesky
© 2007-2009
Please credit Modelizing if you decide to re blog her wonderful images. Thank you.

Mr. Imagination in Kansas

Review of a downtown art project with Mr. Imagination and the community in Salina Kansas.

Dorothy Robinson's Solo Show Review

Dorothy Robinson's second solo exhibition at Slate Gallery, Continental Drift has been reviewed online at Berkshire Fine Arts.
Dorothy Robinson
CONTINENTAL DRIFT - 2008
oil on canvas - 52 x 64 x 1 inches