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2010MEGAN BURNS has a new tour-de-force oil painting, “Breakthru,” featured in Denatured, a group show at the Gershwin Hotel in New York. ALFREDO MARTINEZ has been featured in “For Expatriates in China, Creative Lives of Plenty,” a recent New York Times article by Dan Levin chronicling the lives of five artists originally from Europe and the United States that are currently working in China. Overstock, SHINIQUE SMITH’s 2005 exhibition at The Proposition was mentioned in “Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint,” a recent New York Times article by Roberta Smith highlighting several exhibitions from 2000-2009 as evidence that the past decade had been a great time for art. MICKALENE THOMAS has been commissioned by MoMA to create work (on display through December 2010) for the front window at the entrance of The Modern restaurant. She has also recently launched a newly redesigned website with a link to The Proposition, where visitors can view her work from previous exhibitions with The Proposition, including Brawling Spitfire Series (2006, held at DUST Gallery in Las Vegas) and Glory, Glamour & Gold (2004 group show featuring two portraits of Jackie Curtis by Mickalene). The Proposition’s Director, RONALD SOSINSKI, recently had a front row seat with celebrity photographer Rose Hartman at Joe’s Pub for a Sandra Bernhardt concert, which Rose has mentioned in a recent edition of her column “Rambling Rose: Whatever It Takes,” featured in Chelsea Now. 2009ALFREDO MARTINEZ has a drawing included in MoMA’s newly published The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Catalogue RaisonnĂ©. Acquired by the museum in 2005, this collection comprises more than 2,500 works (ranging in date from the 1930’s to 2005) by over 650 artists and represents a multitude of ways by which drawings are defined and rendered. To view the drawing in MoMA’s collection, click here. DANE PATTERSON has been awarded a fellowship grant from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in recognition of his excellence in the category of Drawing. Congratulations, Dane! In case you missed Patterson’s latest solo exhibition, New Work, you can view the 360 degree installation view. BALINT ZSAKO has work in Diabolique, a group exhibition organized by Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada), which also features work by William Kentridge, Raymond Pettibone and Jake & Dinos Chapman, among others. BALINT ZSAKO has work in a group exhibition with his mother, ANNA TORMA, and father, ISTVAN ZSAKO at Wilde Gallery in Berlin, Germany. ……………………………………………. A Memorial Tribute I saw the golden light A storm approaches taken too soon freed from the tumult of life old soul fly free you…could not be. The Proposition boundless energy Another Summer of discontent Ronald Sosinski, …………………………………………… THE PROPOSITION closes its gallery location on W 22nd Street and begins operating virtually, presenting on-line exhibitions exclusively, during the interim period until further relocation. 2008ALLISON HAWKINS, DANE PATTERSON and BALINT ZSAKO are featured artists in Timeless: The Art of Drawing, a group show at the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ CATHERINE BROOKS is a featured artist in figure 3 at galleryHomeland, Portland, OR GRACE GRAUPE-PILLARD is selected for inclusion in The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at The National Academy in NYC. GRACE GRAUPE-PILLARD has a solo exhibition, Displaced/Interventions, at Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark, NJ CATHERINE BROOKS is a featured artist in Uncommon Gardens, a group show at Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA TOM JARMUSCH participates in WHITE BOX SPEAKS: Working Practice (Part I), a panel discussion affiliated with DiVA (Digital & Video Art Fair), at White Box NYC. THE PROPOSITION has a container on 10th Avenue at 23rd Street in DiVA (Digital & Video Art Fair) 2008 - New York GRACE GRAUPE-PILLARD has a solo exhibition, Displaced/Interventions, at Payne Gallery in Bethlehem, PA BALINT ZSAKO has a solo exhibition, Works from the Bernardi Collection, at mocca (the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) in Toronto, ON DANE PATTERSON is part of a group exhibition, “works on paper”, at galerie bertrand & gruner in Geneva, Switzerland JASON GRINGLER has a solo exhibition, Various states of undress, construction and repair, at Angell Gallery in Toronto, ON 2007GRACE GRAUPE-PILLARD is part of a group exhibition, Sanctuary, at Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark, NJ TIM EVANS and KYUNG JEON are part of a group exhibition, Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, at Hunterdon Museum of Art CATHERINE BROOKS is a featured artist in a group show at The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ALFREDO MARTINEZ with the:artist:network curates Dream Palace, an exhibition with over 50 artists from China and overseas, at A-SPACE, Beijing, China Kyung Jeon, The Impulse Garden
Village Voice - Alfredo MartinezFebruary 18th, 2007 - Village Voice, Trigger Happy, by Michael Spies |
