Next Anti-Oxidant: Metanoia scheduled June 2012

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REVIEW: ANTI-OXIDANT: PROMANTIC | THECOOLTURE.COM

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Wonderpuss Octapus: Venus, Courtesy the artist and Christopher Henry Gallery

ANTI-OXIDANT: PROMANTIC An Amazing Group Show of Video Art at Christopher Henry Gallery

by SOFIA 

From the 1st to the 5th of February, Christopher Henry Gallery, in New York, presents Anti-Oxidant: Promantic, a group show of video art curated by Jason LeBlond and Christina Medina. I´m sure that everyone longS to see the newest work of Cody Critchelo, “Psy-Chic," that will be shown together with his video “ASAP." Critchelo recently directed Santogold’s latest video for “Big Mouth,” that has created an strong impact and quite a buzz.

The rest of the participants at Anti Oxidant: Promantic are also absolutely amazing. Dev Harlan and Sean Capone present three videos each. The first one, shows Stay Insane and Open the Night, both of them with music by Black Devil Disco, and Love Birds. The second one, arrives with Pink Narcissus (2011), Floral Wall (2010) and The Crystal Set (Live Life Like A Diamond Ring) (2011). From his side, Wonderpuss Octopus presents  Honeymoon: La Naissance de Venus,  How to Meet Men,  How to Compliment a Woman and How to Compliment a Man. Read More

 

  

REVIEW: ANTI-OXIDANT: PROMANTIC | ARTEFUSE.COM

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TRIP INTO THE LIGHT PROMANTIC

Morphing (video) Painting by Sean Capone

 

Off Nolita and on the outskirts of Chinatown, there’s a gallery that pushes the envelope of what’s current in the electrifying art scene. Christopher Henry gallery on their former church digs on Elizabeth Street hosted an opening reception for its group show for video artists last February 1, 2012 and it’s called “Anti-Oxidant: Promantic." Read More

Thank You!!! Anti-Oxidant: Promantic Opening Reception Pics

Thank you to all that supported us! Your presence, both physical and/or in your heart, was deeply appreciated! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for making it such a memorable night and a success!!!! Also many thanks to the artists involved for contributing their amazing work. We were honored to showcase your creative efforts! xoxoxoxc

Your Curators: Jason LeBlond & Christina Renée Medina!!!

Cody Critchelo (SSION): ASAP 

Bec Stupak: Cotton Candy

Dev Harlan installation upstairs

Dev Harlen

Polar Polarizer and Victoria Bleakley

Lorenzo Wirz Castellani & Christina Renée Medina

Clinton Querci, Carrie Beehan, and Trystette

Gage Ofthe Boone

Marco Ovando (left)

Sarah Stuve, PJ Linden, Rachel Klein & Eric Schmalenberger

Carl Eklof, Jessica Vale and Clinton Querci

Geoffrey Mac, Cristian Maximilliano Temi, and Jason

Vaness Paulsen, Lisa Luna & friend, Bobby Smith, Lily Ostrovsky

Ryan Sartin & Jacob Bills

Giovanna Cavicchioli, Clinton Querci, and Shell Sheddy

Gautier Delabe (left)

Anti-Oxidant: Promantic @ Christopher Henry Gallery in LES

Group Show of Video Art. Curated by Jason LeBlond and Christina Medina. Special Limited Engagement: February 1st - February 5th. Featuring: DEV HARLAN, CODY CRITCHELOE(of SSION), BEC STUPAK, MARCO OVANDO, ROB ROTH, SEAN CAPONE, JULIA OLDHAM, CLINTON CURTIS-QUERCI & CARRIE... BEEHAN, LINDSAY BENIDICT, FRANCK PAGLIERI, and WONDERPUSS OCTOPUS.

Christopher Henry Gallery presents Anti-Oxidant: Promantic a group show of Video Art curated by Jason LeBlond and Christina Medina. A delicious assortment of works have been compiled into a single reel, which will be projected large scale on the gallery’s main wall.

All of the components of Anti-Oxidant: Promantic fall into the chemical classification of the purest substance known to man: LOVE. The thematic selection is packed with dietary supplements more powerful than vitamin C, vitamin E, and glutathione combined. Anti-Oxidant: Promantic provides over 200% of the recommended daily value of nutrients such as romance, desire, passion, and inspiration. Of all known anti-oxidants LOVE is the most potent and has been proven to have healing properties, reduce stress, combat aging, prevent disease, and cure depression. Possible side affects may include: blindness, bleeding, confusion, and suicidal thoughts.

A line up of free radicals such as DEV HARLAN, CODY CRITCHELOE(of SSION), and BEC STUPAK break it down for us. Their moving images serve as visual catalysts for chain reactions ranging from infatuation and obsession to heartbreak and cellular deterioration. The artists’ individual expressions range from moody short experimental films, to dazzling computer generated animation, to sublime moving paintings, to fun-filled music videos and satirical "how-to" videos. The good, bad, ugly, and most often beautiful aspects of LOVE are all portrayed, resulting in a show which will alter you on a molecular level… your cells will thank you.

Bushwick Open Studios / Anti-Oxidant this weekend!

It's finally here, Bushwick Open Studios weekend! Time to celebrate all of the hard work and amazing art created in our lovely hood. For this weekend only Anti-Oxidant BK will do a two day screening in the Den at Northeast Kingdom. Video art all day long this Saturday and Sunday only. So stop in the Kingdom for a little refreshing break and chill with some fantastic work from your local Bushwick video artists!

The Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff
Corner of Troutman and Wycoff
Bushwick, BK!


LINDSAY BENEDICT
Through film, performance, and various media Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. In her work, affect and raw emotion are often deployed to disrupt and destabilize any simple reading of human connections. A wide ranging temporality, from more deliberate and slowly conceived films and sewn texts to the more immediately gestural drawings allow a dense layering of material and narrative to unravel and intertwine simultaneously.

JULIE HANUS

CHRISTINA MEDINA
youwereinmydreamslastnightbaby.com
Armed with a ten-year-old's imagination, I am dreamer by nature and prefer to wonder what the world would be like upside down. My motivation is derived from an examination of my own childhood memories, longings, aspirations, and beliefs. I would like to wake the dormant dreams we left behind with our dolls and toy cars. Teetering between a need for financial security and living a life of adventurous exploration of my heart’s desires, I remain a believer in truth, beauty, but most importantly LOVE.

JAKE SELVIDIO
selvidio.com
I have been making short, documentary-style videos for five years. They have become a collective autobiography that encompasses my friends, family and past relationships. I studied photography and video at Pratt Institute, where I received my MFA.

HYLA SKOPITZ
skopitz.com
Hyla Skopitz grew up with a giant papier maché hot dog on the mantle and a rubber bat hanging from the chandelier. She naturally developed an eye for detail and ironic juxtapositions. As a teenager, she began documenting the endless shelves and cubbyholes filled with miscellaneous screws and bolts, coils of wires covered in cobwebs, and arcane gadgets in various states of disrepair that her grandfather, a child of the depression, had collected in secret basement rooms. Her photographs and videos continue to investigate familial relics, nostalgia, and sentimentality. They oscillate between diaristic and documentary, emotional and objective, the present and memory. She received her masters of fine arts at ICP-Bard. She currently works in the MET Museum Photo Studio and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her most recent photographs are featured in the next "Abe’s Penny" (Volume 1.4, June).

LAUREN SILBERMAN
Laurendarling.com
Lauren Silberman received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Bard College and currently resides in Brooklyn. She is a visiting scholar at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and is the recipient of awards from PDN. She has performed at Location One and Deitch Projects, as well as in the several underground events and venues that have provided inspiration for her work. She is a founder of the performance group Fakework and she utilizes photography, video, performance, and objects in her work.

JOY WHALEN
Joywhalen.blogspot.com
Receiving her BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2005 and MFA from Pratt Institute in 2007, Joy’s practice involves a combination of drawing, performance and video. Much of this work involves environmental depictions of a nether land, which fluctuates in a space caught within the tensions of a preceding and ensuing state of change, where industrial overthrow and urbanization are challenged by resilience of the natural world.

Anti-Oxidant BK tonight! Wed 5/20

Anti-Oxidant BK

Wednesday / May 20 / 10pm / Free

the Den @ Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff Ave
Bushwick, Brooklyn

Jefferson stop on the L train

Tonight's theme is "You the Narrator." Come out tonight to view works from Angela S. Beallor, Rebecca (Marks) Leopold, Christina Medina, Jake Selvidio, and Hyla Skopitz.

REBECCA (MARKS) LEOPOLD
rebeccaleopold.com
In Addition / 2008
Layering image, text and sound, In Addition is an exploration of the simple truth that the word “you” houses multiple definitions throughout a day or over a lifetime. Just as we do away with obsolete machines, we too lose those individuals, ideas, places and identities we once defined in relation to our lives. This work is an example of the artist’s ongoing practice of documenting isolated domestic performances in order to elucidate the ways in which technology influences and has the capacity to reveal our own psychic spaces. Throughout her work, the act of writing is consistently juxtaposed with various self-reflexive camera techniques and constructed technical errors, making reference to the current speed of communication while focusing on the entropic and corporeal aspects of every day life.

Rebecca (Marks) Leopold was born in a suburb, found time in the country and now lives and works in New York City & Philadelphia. A double graduate of Bard College she received her MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies in 2008. She has exhibited work in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey as well as others. Most of her time is spent crafting pixels into seconds and sentences.

ANGELA S. BEALLOR
angelabeallor.com
Conversation / 2007
The documentary filmmaker is invested in this family’s life but always at an insurmountable distance. She speaks to her friend of her concern and ambivalence. The friend who listens in return expresses interest and concern. In the end, she is not sure what to do with this information. Michael Bernard-Donals writes, “Testimonial narratives do not disclose history; instead they disclose— where the narrative most clearly shows the seams— the effect of events on witnesses.” The subtitles of the video capture not only the words as they are said but too the pauses, hesitations, and silences.

Angela Beallor has a BS in photo-illustration from Kent State University and an MFA in advanced photography from Bard-ICP. Her work often involves appropriated images and objects, photography, video, and writing. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn

CHRISTINA MEDINA
youwereinmydreamslastnightbaby.com
Daydreams / 2007
It began as a childhood daydream. Then one sticky summer’s night I woke up and I realized it came true. These are the explorations of my own private surrealistic Cult of Domesticity. No makeup, no shoes, in the kitchen, a stove, a spoon, and Pace Picante Sauce.

Armed with a ten-year-old's imagination, I am dreamer by nature and prefer to wonder what the world would be like upside down. My motivation is derived from an examination of my own childhood memories, longings, aspirations, and beliefs. I would like to wake the dormant dreams we left behind with our dolls and toy cars. Teetering between a need for financial security and living a life of adventurous exploration of my heart’s desires, I remain a believer in truth, beauty, but most importantly LOVE.

JAKE SELVIDIO
selvidio.com
Poppy & Grandma / 2008
After nearly forty years of marriage, my grandfather, Poppy, left my grandmother to be with his long-time girlfriend. Sixteen years later, and just a week after Poppy's girlfriend's passing, I interviewed each of my grandparents separately and asked them to recount their stories of meeting each other, falling in love, and eventually going their separate ways.

I have been making short, documentary-style videos for five years. They have become a collective autobiography that encompasses my friends, family and past relationships. I studied photography and video at Pratt Institute, where I received my MFA.

HYLA SKOPITZ
skopitz.com
Bima / 2008
I spent a week with my grandmother. I sat with her on the porch every morning drinking burnt coffee and watching the birds who live in the Asian maple tree. Half blind, she listens to them sing and tells me the same stories all over again. I feel very close to her, in synch. “The tree is dying because there are too many of them,” she says. She goes inside with a sigh; the lawn is littered with saltines. I eavesdrop through the screen, she is talking to ghosts again.

Untitled (Pancakes) / 2007
The process of making pancakes, a futile attempt to relive a childhood memory that is imbued with nostalgia and sentimentality, translates into a sincere gesture as it oscillates between hilarity and sadness. Part document and part performance, the camera itself shifts between objective distance and subjective presence and explores the solitude of the artistic process and the way one negotiates the past and often tries to hold onto or pay tribute to that which has been lost.

While You Were Out / 2007
I like to think of him coming across these words, jotting them down. Leaving it for me absent-mindely. Yet, this is an artifact, the star of my archive in fact. Is it possible to create something which conveys a complete emotional state, daily life filtered through loss, without suffering from sentimentality?

Hyla Skopitz grew up with a giant papier maché hot dog on the mantle and a rubber bat hanging from the chandelier. She naturally developed an eye for detail and ironic juxtapositions. As a teenager, she began documenting the endless shelves and cubbyholes filled with miscellaneous screws
and bolts, coils of wires covered in cobwebs, and arcane gadgets in various states of disrepair that her grandfather, a child of the depression, had collected in secret basement rooms. Her photographs and videos continue to investigate familial relics, nostalgia, and sentimentality. They oscillate between diaristic and documentary, emotional and objective, the present and memory. She received her masters of fine arts at ICP-Bard. She currently works in the MET Museum Photo Studio and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her most recent photographs are featured in the next "Abe’s Penny" (Volume 1.4, June).