Plenty of people in life find a mindset capable enough to be satisfied. We will never be satisfied. We will never be finished. When time fades and last nights next week. We were there, you were there. We are here. This is only now. This is Cool Intentions.

Opening this Friday at Holiday at Primetime, 135 Huntington St. brooklyn
A collection of photographs by Matthew Sidella and Aimee Lusty
6-8pm

Location: Pen15 Press
59 Scholes St. #103
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Dates & Times:
Friday June 4th, 2010, 7pm - 9pm
Saturday June 5th, 2010, 12pm-7pm
Sunday June 6th, 2010, 12pm-7pm

www.pen15press.com
Contact: aimee@girlsandbeuysclub.com

Description:
Pen15 Press is an ongoing publishing/printing collaboration between Jason Roy, Scott Meyers, Aimee Lusty and Kyle Gilbride offering limited-edition handmade artists’ books and zines; featuring their own artwork as well as curated selections of other artists. New editioned zines, prints, posters, apparel and videos for sale. Includes group exhibition of original artworks: featuring in-house artists from Pen15 Press studio as well as artists we collaborate with, exhibit with, are inspired by, and admire.

Install shots:

I have four drawings in the group exhibition “A Sudden Thaw” at C.C.C.P. Gallery (Creative Curator’s Collective Program)  in Brooklyn opening tonight March 5 from 6 -8pm. The gallery is a neat little space dedicated to showcasing the artwork of artists who curate. It’s an unthemed show to start off the Spring schedule and welcome new artists, including myself, to the roster.

Artists Include:
Jessica Bender
Lauren Hill
Aimee Lusty
Allan Montaine
Ashley Musfeldt
Tom Thomson

** All artwork under $300.

A SUDDEN THAW @ C.C.C.P. Gallery
38 Marcy Avenue 1R, Brooklyn NY-entrance on Hope St.
Opening reception March 5, 6 - 8pm
March 5 - 28, 2010

**A joint opening in conjunction with neighboring Dam Stuhltrager Gallery
Dam Stuhltrager Gallery:
Exhibition: “Sediment”
Artist: Anna Frants
Run Dates: March 5th - March 19th 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 7-9 pm
Also March 5th: special Brooklyn-wide Armory events at local galleries til midnight!

new and improved www.ScottMeyers.info

also some friends of ours finally have their own websites:

Christian Little

Rich Sperber

The Analysis of Booty, by William Hogarth edited by Aimee Lusty.
Finally finished and now available:
$10 + $3 Shipping.
80 pgs. b/w xerox on pink paper.
8.5 x 11 inches.

A contemporary translation of William Hogarth’s 1753 book The Analysis of Beauty. While the same ideals of aesthetics still exist they are forced into the shadows by the obsession with personal beauty and physical appearance as influenced by pop culture and the media, especially affecting women. Throughout the essay every mention of beauty is replaced with the word “booty.”

Hogarth implements six principles which independently affect beauty: fitness, variety, regularity, simplicity, intricacy, and quantity and greatness. In this new translation each principle is illustrated by a different stereotype of woman, thus critiquing the ageless mindset that women are objects of beauty to be analyzed.

Focusing on Hogarth’s attraction to the serpentine line and retranslating to contemporary standards, The Analysis of Booty illustrates these thoughts with pornographic women and contemporary examples of ideals of beauty. The plates in the book have been replaced with iconic “booty” references, illustrating the abundance of these images, not only on the internet, but also television, advertisements, and film.

While The Analysis of Beauty is a timeless bible to how we see and interpret beauty in art and objects, contemporary aesthetics and ideals of physical beauty have changed drastically from the modest attraction to a female nude, to an aggressive attraction towards scantily clad fashion, focusing more so on sex than sensuality. The Analysis of Booty is a critique on the abundance of sex and objectification of women in the media, and its consequent deformation of the aesthetics of beauty.

email for individual sales or distribution: aimee@girlsandbeuysclub.com
paypal/check/money order
©Aimee Lusty; 2009

]]> http://girlsandbeuysclub.com/?feed=rss2&p=408 http://girlsandbeuysclub.com/?p=396 http://girlsandbeuysclub.com/?p=396#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:33:53 +0000 aimee http://girlsandbeuysclub.com/?p=396 SPACE JAM
November 13 - December 12, 2009; Tuesday - Saturday: 12 - 5pm
Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 2009: 6 - 10pm
Curated by Aimee Lusty

Union Gallery is pleased to present “Space Jam,” a group exhibition themed on 2-dimensional
works that venture into 3-dimensional space, where the imagined world becomes the audiences’
reality. Each artist establishes an explorative environment using traditionally flat and
dimensionless media. “Space Jam” is an orchestrated jamming of handcrafted microcosms into
one all-encompassing space.
The exhibition showcases artwork by: Yo Fukui, Yasemin Kackar- Demirel, Dina
Kelberman, Andrea Loefke, Scott Meyers, Devin Powers, Alan Resnick and Ryan
Syrell.
These artists explore what happens when drawings, paintings, prints, and collage begin to break
away from the walls and become installations. The general restrictions of framing works and
limiting them to wall-space inhibits the possibilities these mediums are capable of. These
handcrafted worlds encourage individual experiences and interpretations. All pieces are site-specific
installations that challenge the artists’ conventions of two-dimensional work, spanning from
minimalist drawing to audience interactive pieces. The installations simulate the sensation of
stepping into a drawing, allowing viewers to experience the dimensionality that artists strive to
imitate in physically flat works.

(Above Installation by Andrea Loefke, “Happily I Await the End,” 2009.)

(Yasemin Kackar- Demirel, “Unnatural Habitat,” 2009)

(Scott Meyers, “Monolith II,” 2009)

(Devin Powers, “What Shatters Gathers and what Gathers Blows Apart,” 2009)

(Yo Fukui, “Untitled,” 2009)

(Dina Kelberman, “Things Who,” 2009)

(Alan Resnick, “DVD Featurette,” 2009)

Lately I’ve been helping out with the programming schedule of this newly re-opened gallery in Tribeca. I was asked to curate a group exhibition this November. I did, it’s called SPACE JAM, and it’s opening next week!!

This will be a group exhibition themed on 2-dimensional works coming out into 3-dimensional space. The artists will explore when drawings, paintings, prints, and collage begin to break away from the walls and become installations.
Each artist was asked to create an explorative environment using traditionally flat and dimensionless media. All works are site-specific installations that challenge the artists’ conventions of two dimensional work, spanning from minimalist drawing to audience interactive pieces.

Artists Include:
Yo Fukui
Yasemin Kackar-Demirel
Dina Kelberman
Andrea Loefke
Scott Meyers
Devin Powers
Alan Resnick
Ryan Syrell

Curated by Aimee Lusty

Union Gallery
359 Broadway
New York, NY

Opening Reception for the Artists: Friday, November 13 from 6 - 10 pm.
Musics and wines, all the artists will be there.

All work is site-specific and mostly will be constructed during installation week, but here is a sneak peek to one of the finished video pieces in the exhibition.

Oh from dina on Vimeo.

This is probably the best place to do all your holiday shopping. Luke Allen’s Holiday Art Shoppe.

Some wonderful people in Baltimore made this wonderful video.

Description: This is a video that we made for the song “Norway” soon to be released on Beach House’s upcoming album. It was designed to be watched with 2 alternate soundtracks. One way is with the song playing over it (like a traditional music video), and the other way is with the original soundtrack.
This is the version with the original soundtrack.
This video will be released along with the album in the coming month.

More videos on their youtube page.

I’ve been helping direct this gallery that is opening in Tribeca, we’re having our inaugural group exhibition opening this Friday, Oct, 16 from 6 - 10 pm to celebrate the new space and the new additions to our artist roster. If you can’t make it to this one I’ll be curating the next show in November.

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Union Gallery
359 Broadway
New York NY
www.theuniongallery.com

The Union Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural group exhibition of gallery
artists at our new 4,000 square foot space located at 359 Broadway.
Still in Tribeca, we have moved a couple of blocks south of our original space at
62 Walker Street. Please join us at the reception for the artists on Friday
October 16th from 6-9pm to celebrate our new location and new additions to our
gallery roster.

Artists:
Andrew Bernero
Adam Distenfeld
Brad Darcy
Manuela Viera-Gallo
Josey Hale
Aimee Lusty
Emily Noelle Lambert
Pei-Yu Lai
MaryKate Maher
Scott Meyers
Devin Powers
Evan Ryer
Miljan Suknovic
German Tagle
Kristof Wickman

Music, Performances, and Free Drinks!
Exhibition will run from October 16 - November 7. Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 5pm

The 359 Broadway building has a rich history. Originally built in 1853, the space
was once the studio and home of the great American photographer Mathew Brady. The
ground floor currently occupied by the Union Gallery was originally Thompson’s
Saloon, frequented by literary and artistic luminaries such as Walt Whitman. The
building is also the former location
of many galleries and art events including Leo Koenig Gallery, Canada Gallery,
and studio of our founder John Peet. It is also well known as the location of
other experiments in contemporary art including the site for the recently
released documentary “We Live in Public.”

The Union Gallery will offer many new programs and opportunities for artists and
curators alike. We remain open to curatorial submissions and will continue to
show a wide array of contemporary artists and work.

**Image credit courtesy of Union Gallery: Miljan Suknovic, Installation View, 2009.

I was asked to submit a “site specific” artwork for the catalog accompanying the upcoming Without Borders VI exhibition at the University of Maine. This was created specifically to be produced for presentation on a printed page.

This year’s show is themed Conjunction and Collaboration. It will feature the work of 20 international artists, as well as 20 collaborative video pieces. Four artists, including myself, were asked to submit print-specific works for the accompanying catalog.

Thanks for including me!

The first major exhibition in New York in twenty years devoted to one of the most important painters of the twentieth-century, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective features 130 works (65 paintings and 65 archival items) that span the entirety of the artist’s full and celebrated career. The landmark exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, which mark the centenary of the artist’s birth in Dublin in 1909, bring together the most significant works from each period of Bacon’s career, focusing on the key subjects and themes that run through his extraordinary creative output. This presentation affords the most comprehensive examination to date of Bacon’s sources and working processes, offering a reevaluation of the artist’s work in light of a range of new interpretations and archival materials that have emerged since his death in 1992. The Metropolitan is the sole U.S. venue for this exhibition, which draws from public and private collections around the world.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

The exhibition is made possible in part by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation and Paula Cussi.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Tate Britain, London, in partnership with the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.