Nicole Parcher, AAI mmember, exhibited at Dutch Kills Gallery in Long Island City; "Gallery Artists: Inaugural Group Exhibition" through April 5, 2009

Featured work on display:

El Museo's Bienal
The (S) Files / The Selected Files 2005

Nancy Friedemann

Saturday, March 18, 2006
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
Galleries Bertita & Guillermo L. Martinez and
Santander
Level 4
299 de Diego Avenue
Santurce, Puerto Rico
RSVP: mmorales@mapr.org or 787.977.6277 extension 2263

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Carlos Aponte, Michael Paul Britto, David Cabrera, caraballo-farman, Patricia Cazorla, David Antonio Cruz, Chio Flores, Nancy Friedemann, Graciela Fuentes, iliana emilia garcia, Richard Garet, Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom , Yasmin Hernandez, Cristina Hernandez Botero, Juan Iribarren, Jose© Enrique Krapp, Michael D. Linares, Nicola Lopez, Adria Marquez, Diego Medina Rosas, Carlos Motta, Alfonso Munoz, Jesus Bubu Negron, Claudia Pena, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Fay Ray, Quintn Rivera-Toro, Chemi Rosado Seijo, Milton Rosa-Ortiz, Raymond Sa, Luis M. Salazar, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Erik Shorrock Guzman, Marisa Telleria-Diez, Alejandra Villasmil, y Patricia Zarate

El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files 2005 fue organizado por Deborah Cullen y Mikki Garca a, con Marysol Nieves para El Museo del Barrio, New York.

Apoyo principal provisto por Altria and Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation. Apoyo adicional provisto por Banco Gubernamental de Puerto Rico; The Greenwall Foundation; Peter Norton Family Foundation; Mary McCaffrey; and Violy & Company. Esta exposicion ha sido posible con los fondos publicos del New York State Council on the Arts, una agencia del estado de Nueva York.

La presentacion de esta exposicion en el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico ha sido posible, en parte, gracias al auspicio de Philip Morris USA, Universal Group y Banco Santander Puerto Rico.

INKA ESSENHIGH

March 4 - April 8, 2006
Opening Reception Saturday March 4, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

303 Gallery presents new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. Inka Essenhigh’s figurative abstractions amplify banal moments of everyday life, transforming small exchanges into charged narratives. In "Spring" 2006 a tiny figure is walking briskly through an oversized forest. The environment is dense with grass, trees, vines, and wildlife at dusk. Lush green leaves and dark pink buds and flowers are described in great detail. Essenhigh’s exaggerated sense of nature has evolved out of her painting process, which is an intuitive mix of memory, contemporary media and art historical influences.

The characters and events in Inka Essenhigh’s paintings are depicted in ways that would never be experienced in reality. In her work, motion takes on solidity and objects become permeable. "In Bed", 2005, shows a reclining female figure enveloped in sheets floating around her bed that almost inhale and exhale while she tries to sleep. Demon-like creatures represent the woman’s anxieties as another day begins.

In "Subway", 2005, a male figure rushes down a set of stairs and into a subway car, pushing people out of his way as they exit the train. The outer layers of subway cars have melted away. A white form traces the gentleman’s trajectory, evoking a blur similar to that seen in long exposed photographs.

This past summer Inka Essenhigh had a solo exhibition at the Salamanca Cuidad de Cultura Fundación Municipal, in Salamanca, Spain, with a catalogue including a text by Laura Hoptman. Since 2003, the artist has also had one-person exhibitions at Sint- Luks Galerie, Brussels, Belgium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, as well as at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2004, Essenhigh was also included in the Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as the SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Next year, her work will be included in the "Triumph of Painting, Part 3", at the Saatchi Gallery, London, with a catalogue.

303 Gallery

GROSS ANATOMY: New works by Charley Friedman

February 16 – April 1, 2006

Barbara Mathes Gallery
22 E. 80th street, between Madison & 5th Ave
212-570-4190

Artist Reception:
Friday, February 17
from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

Contact artist Charley Friedman
charleyelrahc@yahoo.com

Reproductive System (R.) and Digestive System (L.)
2005
Wood, sheet metal, enamel paint, 45 x 57 x 3" and 37 x 62 x 3"

MBP - Method Becomes Practice

The Office of the Manhattan Borough President and Artists Alliance Inc are pleased to invite you to the opening reception of MBP - Method Becomes Practice
A selection of works from artist's involved in AAI's studio programs.

Office of the Manhattan Borough President
1 Centre Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY, 10007

Opening reception: December 8, 2005 from 6-7:30pm
Performance by: Frank London of the Klezmatics and friends

Please Note: You must bring Photo Id to gain entry to the building.

Exhibition on view December 8, 2005 - January 31, 2006

Organized by Suzanne Varni and Paul Clay

For more info go to:

www.aai-nyc.org/Art_Inter_actions/MBP/index.html

MBP - Method Becomes Practice. Artists: Carlos Ancalmo, Zeina Assaf, Doug Blanchard, Linda Byrne, Joyce Chan, Paul Clay, Pamela Crimmins, Eduardo Difarencio, Nancy Friedeman, Charlie Friedman, Chitra Ganesh, Robert Grant, Linda Griggs, Kylie Heidenheimer, Felicity Hogan, John Hogan, Michael Katchen, Tine Kinderman, Chang Jin Lee, Bill Massey, Shelly McGuinness, Buxton Midyette, Nancy Muller, Selime Okuyan, Rune Olsen, Steve Page, Nicole Parcher, Mark Power, Maya Puchkoff, David Pushkin, Nola Romano, Heidi Russel, Madhukanta Sen, Flavia Souza, Sherman Sussman, Suzanne Varni, Melanie Vote.

This exhibit was made possible through the generous support of the Office of the Manhattan Borough President. AAI is grateful for the continued support of its dedicated interns, volunteer staff, and AAI Members who devote their time and resources to make AAI project's happen.