Armory Arts Week hits Long Island City on Friday, March 6th

Chocolate Factory’s (re)develop (death valley), Long Island City

This Friday is a big day for Long Island City arts. It’s the Queens day of the Armory Arts Week, which will be touring most of the LIC arts scene. Here’s the local Hunters Point line up:

PS1 MoMa
Exhibition: Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, October 19 – April 13, 2009.
Description: Erlich has constructed a full-size pool, complete with all its trappings, including a deck and a ladder. When approached from the first floor, visitors are confronted with a surreal scene: people, fully clothed, can be seen standing, walking, and breathing beneath the surface of the water. It is only when visitors enter the Duplex gallery from the basement that they recognize that the pool is empty, its construction a visual trick fashioned by the artist.

• PS1 MoMa 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, 718.784.2084
  
  

Deitch Studios
Deitch Projects presents VB64, Vanessa Beecroft’s first public performance in New York since 2000 and an accompanying exhibition of new sculpture at Deitch Studios on the East River in Long Island City. The performance/sculpture will take place on Friday evening, March 6th from 7 – 10 PM. The sculptures from the performance along with a video projection of the performance, will be on view through Sunday April 12th. An exhibition of new wax and gesso sculptures will also be on view in the adjoining gallery.

• Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
  
  

The Noguchi Museum
Exhibition: What is Sculpture?: Akari from the 1986 Venice Biennale, February 18 – April 26, 2009
Description: The Noguchi Museum presents a small survey of Akari related to Isamu Noguchi’s 1986 Venice Biennale exhibition, with prominent, one-of-a kind designs balanced by smaller, iconic forms still in production today

• Noguchi Museum 32-37 Vernon Boulevard (entrance at 9-01 33rd street), Long Island City, 718.204.7088
  
  

Socrates Sculpture Park
Exhibition: EAF08: 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Through March 8, 2009
Description: This exhibit will feature new works by the Park’s current resident artists. This year, Socrates awarded fourteen fellowships to: Martin Basher, Chelsea Beck, Kim Beck & Osman Khan, Michael Berens, Sari Carel, Adriana Farmiga, Kimberley Hart, Rajkamal Kahlon, Jason Bailer Losh, Matthew Lusk, Jong Il Ma, Ted McCann, Juniper Perlis , and Harriet Salmon.

Exhibition: OPEN SPACE, September 7, 2008 – March 8, 2009
Description: Socrates’ ongoing series of individual and collaborative artist projects featuring Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly, and Barbara Westermann.

• Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd. Long Island City, 718.956.1819
  
  

Sculpture Center
Exhibition: The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, Jan 11 – March 22, 2009
Description: The artists in this exhibition all make objects that reflect the facts and fissures of their production. Participating artists include Walead Beshty, Melanie Gilligan, Gabriel Kuri, Michael Rakowitz, Blake Rayne, Karin Schneider, Simon Starling, and Carey Young.

Exhibition: In Practice Winter ‘09, January 11 – March 22, 2009
Description: The works in this exhibition are commissioned through SculptureCenter’s In Practice project series, which supports the creation and presentation of innovative work by emerging artists. Artists include Carey Ascenzo, Becket Bowes, Tyler Coburn, Wojciech Gilewicz, Samara Golden, Rachel Mason, Amy Patton, and Peter Simensky.

• The Sculpture Center 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, 718.361.1750
  
  

Dean Project
Exhibition: Rococo-Pop, Opening reception 6-9pm
Crossing art and frivolity, which characterized the Rococo movement during the 18th century, the included works address how these ideas have been adopted in contemporary culture by means of consumerism, mass reproduction and celebrity-mass media.

• Dean Project, 45-43 21st Street, Long Island City, 718.706.1462
  
  

The Chocolate Factory
Performance: redevelop (death valley)
Description: A real-time video performance about the collision between the personal attachment to the idea of home as a place to put down roots and the idea of real estate as a salable commodity. Featuring direction and video design by Brian Rogers in collaboration with designers Chloe Z. Brown, Brad Kisicki, Maggie Dick, Chris Peck and Madeline Best. Time: 3:00 – 7:00 pm Please note, on display will be an installation piece and not an actual performance.

• Chocolate Factory Theater 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, 718-482-7069
  
  

Crane Street Studios
Open Studios at the Crane Street Studios, across the street from PS1, houses one of New York City’s largest groups of artists. Artists on view: Jason Anderson, Sol Aramendi, Marissa Bluestone, John Cave, Michael Childs, Henry Chung, Christina Dallas, Lisa Fellerson, Roberto Franzione, Sonya Gropman, Anne Katrin Grotepass, Debra Hampton, Kyu-Nam Han, Maurine Holmgren, Anki King, Sonomi Kobayashi, Shlomit Lehavi, Ian White Maher, Meresone & 5 Pointz, Elisabeth Page Purcell, Antonia Amable Perez, Eleanor Rahim, Joan B. Reutershan, Carla Reyes, Akemi Takeda, Kim Tram, Sculptor, Robert Walden, Kiyomi Yamagishi and Ward Yashimoto. Time: 2:00 – 8:00 pm.

• Crane Street Studios 46-23 Crane Street, Floors 2-5, Long Island City
  
  

Local Project
Exhibition: Portraits “an Intimate Connection”
Description: The exhibition includes a selection of portraits by Local Project artists. Time: 12 Noon – 10:00 pm

• Local Project 45-10 Davis Street, Long Island City, 646.884.4701
  
  

The Space
LIC MY INITIATIVE: exhibition, reception and open studios
Description: An exhibition offering art in three different contexts: the gallery, the collection, and the studio. Visitors will gain insight into The Space’s programs and facilities and enjoy an insider’s look into LIC’s burgeoning art scene.

ShowSpace, The Space’s gallery, is open 12 Noon – 6:00 pm, followed by a reception for the artists from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. At 9:00 pm the focus shifts to the WorkSpace, The Space’s artistic epicenter, with a guided tour of the artists’ work, which includes more than 1,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures and new media. The artists in residence will open their studios to the public and be available to provide insight into their work. Refreshments will be served and in-house artists DJ Boxcutta & DJ Blow J Simpson will perform. Time: 12 Noon – 2:00 am. RSVP appreciated: info@licspace.org

• The Space ShowSpace, 25-17 41st Ave, WorkSpace, 42-16 West Street, 46-01 5th St, Long Island City
  
  

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
Home Sweet Home curated by Ombretta Argo’ Andruff, featuring works by: Betty Bee, Giulia Caira, Cecilia Lundqvist, Marko Mäetamm, Ronald Morán, Ultra Violet, Krzysztof Wodiczko. The artists explore the topic of domestic violence and the sometimes-illusory safety of private spaces through installation, video, animation, drawing and photography.

• Dorsky Gallery 11-03 45th Avenue, Long Island City, 718.937.6317
  
  

APW Gallery
Grand Opening of the APW Gallery’s new location in Long Island City. APW Gallery showcases the works of emerging and mid-career artists from various parts of the globe. March marks the grand opening of the gallery’s new location in Long Island City.

• APW Gallery 48-18 Van Dam Street, Long Island City
  
  

LICArtists Inc. Exhibition and Open Studios
Description: Exhibition of a select group from their over 110 member artists in one of Long Island City’s newest art studio complexes. Time: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

• LIC Artists 10-10 44th Ave, Long ISland City
  
  

Fisher Landau Center for Art
Exhibition: Five Decades of Passion, Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, Jan 4 – March 31, 2009
Description: The exhibition focuses on groupings of artists that Emily Fisher Landau collected between 1968 and 1988, offering an intimate glimpse into her passionate legacy, from the first acquisitions to the founding of the Center in Long Island City.

Exhibition: Imagination Noir, January 4 – March 31, 2009
Description: Photographs from the collection emphasizing cinematic narrative and allegorical iconography, featuring artists from the collection alluding to the Film Noir genre, including John Baldessari, Gregory Crewdson, Barbara Ess, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lorna Simpson and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Exhibition: Jasper Johns: *The Screenprints, January 4 – March 31, 2009
Description: A reexamination of the exhibition presented at Fisher Landau Center for Art in 1996, highlighting the complete set of 26 editioned screenprints produced between 1968 and 1982.

• Fisher Landau Center for Art 38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, 718.937.0727
  
  

Juvenal Reis Studios
Group exhibition at The Experimental Space and visit to a select group of artist studios. Juvenal Reis Studios is a community of international professional and emerging artists, including 190 painters, sculptors, photographers, video and installation artists from 20 nations. Please note that not all artists will have their studio open for this occasion. Time: 2:00 – 6:00 pm

• Juvenal Reis, 43-01 22nd Street , 3rd floor, Long Island City, 718.570.3663