For Immediate Release: Two emerging art meccas cross borders this Fall.

Madrid in Williamsburg & Williamsburg in Madrid
  SWAP’O6 Madrid in Williamsburg
  at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery
   
Dates: Sept. 8 - Oct. 8
Reception: Friday, Sept. 8 (7-9pm)
Special Night: Friday, Sept. 15 (7-10pm) "One Night in Madrid", in conjunction w/ Williamsburg Gallery Assoc.
Exhibit: “Echo” curated by Elena Blanque & Sara Abad of APAC
Gallery 1, 2 & 3: Artwork by: Yolanda del Amo, Ruben Ramos Balsa, Rafael de Diego, Esther Manas, & Javier Viver
  www.swapproject.com
 
This Cultural Exchange was generously sponsored by the Spanish Government and APAC
 
 

pictured: "Music Box " by Esther Manas
pictured: "Valentines" by Yolanda del Amo
 
ECHO is an exhibit interpreting, from diverse perspectives, reflections on human individualism.
Five Madrid artists offer five views on the constant balance of private and public territory.
 

Defining what signifies privacy and private places...
In her photography, Yolanda del Amo captures psychological tension created by connections and disconnections between people with their surroundings. Her imagery questions the roles categorizing personal relationships and private spaces.

Tussling with a single documentation covering a public “event”...
Ruben Ramos Balsa tackles the challenges of depicting an “event” and explores how different systems of representation be it cinematic, performance or visual, adopt diverse formulae to reproduce phenomena.

Questioning where ambiguous craftsman ends and unique artist begins...
Rafael de Diego creates sculptural dolls, an artist who intentionally flirts with the notions separating craft and fine art. Integrating the pedestal, platform or bases with his sculpture, de Diego is at once both a carpenter and an innovative creator, setting the stage of a new world.

Looking at what stands in front of the mirror vs what the mirror reflects...
Esther Manas brakes from traditional painting and perspective techniques, abandoning canvas and opting to work directly on walls throughout the gallery. Simple geometric lines offer visual games, through which the perspective of recreated spaces overlaps with the real ones. Manas suggests areas of transit, crossing points, waiting rooms, architectural constructions or even travel agencies, which offer and sell the dream of escaping the city.

Reconfiguring the individual’s place in a consumer society...
Since 2001, Javier Viver has emerged himself in Project EspHeM (Packaging Structures to Inhabit This World). An experimental company, EspHeM offers a new option for temporary buying using the contemporary marketing strategies to develop long-term “brand” loyalty. Through large scale sculptural installations, EspHeM hints at the buffoonery paraded in corporate branding that is embraced by consumers.

On Friday, September 15th, over thirty galleries in Williamsburg will be holding a late night celebration ushering in a new and exciting season. All galleries will keep their doors open until 10 pm.

Dam, Stuhltrager invites you to take a Back- From- Vacation- Vacation with A ONE NIGHT ONLY event...

"One Night in Madrid..." Transport yourself from the hectic, laborious days back at work to the sultry, sensational world of Madrid, Spain. Skirts swishing with the pulse of Flamenco, overflowing glasses of Sangria, tapas and spontaneous performances set to the beat of an exhibition of Spain’s top emerging artists. Straight from the heart of Madrid to right off the L train.

Coming SOON: SWAP’O6 Williamsburg in Madrid
  at Galeria Arteveintiuno
   
Dates: Oct. 10 - Nov.10
Reception: Oct. 10
Exhibit: “AMERICANA” curated by Elena Blanque & Sara Abad of APEC
Gallery: Artwork by: C. Dam, Loren Munk, William Powhida & Jeff Schneider
Film: Dam, Stuhltager's film exhibit "SHOOT" to be screened in Madrid at Circulo de Bellas Artes on Oct 28
  www.swapproject.com
 
This Cultural Exchange was generously sponsored by the Spanish Government and APAC

For Immediate Release: A secret garden... ready to be uncovered!

A new top secret installation comes to Dam, Stuhltrager's Sculpture Garden addressing what really lies "in our own backyard".
Dates: Sept. 8 - Nov 13
Reception: Friday, Sept. 8 (7-9pm)
Special Night: Friday, Sept. 15 (7-10pm) "One Night in Madrid", in conjunction w/ Williamsburg Gallery Assoc.
Exhibit: OUR BACKYARD: A CAUTIONARY TALE
  curated by Barry Hoggard & James Wagner
 

Art installation by: Susan C. Dessel

   

 

OUR BACKYARD: A CAUTIONARY TALE

curated by Barry Hoggard & James Wagner

Susan C. Dessel builds monuments to the essential humanity we all share, but it is a humanity that can assume a very ugly form.

Her art is normally conceived as a public installation, whether or not site-specific. The full power of the artist's work, although clearly sculptural and sometimes even "monumental." is only fully unleashed by those who experience it. In a statement which accompanied her piece in the Brooklyn College MFA thesis show this spring she explained: "I feel that my art is successful if it elicits a connection in which the narrative belongs to the viewer."

   
   

 

Of her latest installation, "Our Backyard, A Cautionary Tale," Dessel writes:

My recent work creates a dialog with prevailing icons, addressing how our increasingly-networked world has redefined the concepts of time, space, and distance. The site-specific nature of the gallery’s Sculpture Garden was an opportunity for me to re-imagine the world as I understand it: our shared backyard.

Without a page to turn or a switch to flip the installation is a reminder of the potential of our decisions, whether thoughtfully considered or determined simply through inaction. We can close our eyes but the images are always there, and behind them stand the realities that we all help to create.

 

 
   
Dessel's Williamsburg "Backyard" is our backyard, regardless of where we live, and both the image and the reality it imagines will remain even after we leave it, even after it leaves the gallery.
   
       
 

Dam, Stuhltrager Elsewhere this September:

Extended! Through Sept 4: Ryan Wolfe at Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indy MoCA)

September 5 - October 14: Ruth Marshall at MassArt

FOR MORE INFORMATION ONLINE visit:
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Williamsburg:
Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery
 
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