For Immediate Release: Loren Munk adds two new panels to "Greater Williamsburg" project to meet public's overwhelming response!
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(detail of "Greater Williamsburg" Project by Loren Munk) After opening on October 13, Loren Munk's interactive project, "Greater Williamsburg", quickly filled to capacity with over 175 infamous residents of the neighborhood's art community. With three weeks still left for this project to grow even bigger, Munk has added two new panels to the already jam-packed 8 ft by 12 ft triptych to meet public response. ABOUT THE PROJECT: Loren Munk's paintings serve as a record of New York's contemporary art world and its powerful lineage, tracing neighborhoods, trends, trend setters and transitions of the past 50 years of Art History. Now Munk sets his sights on being the first to historically document the thickly condensed and unwieldy plethora of the emerging and emerged Art of Williamsburg. An intrinsic component of Munk's exhibit is an 8 ft by 15 ft triptych depicting Williamsburg's topography. Presented in the gallery as "a work in progress" this Map Painting will not be finished by the artist's brush, but by its own subject, Williamsburg itself, throughout the exhibit. Williamsburg's artists, gallerists, critics and collectors are all encouraged to leave their mark in history. Equal parts performance, participatory art and documentary- the artist allows viewers to go on the record with a snapshot and ribbon. ABOUT THE PAINTINGS: Loren Munk's "Map Paintings" are unmistakably the inheritor of painstaking research, insider information, enormous ambition, insightful wit and a highly developed hand/eye. Names, dates, places and time lines form visual commentaries that surpass recording a moment to connect eras, movements and generations. R.C. Baker in the Village Voice calls Munk a “Flo-Chart Expressionist” who’s “obsessions take the New York School back to school.” ABOUT THE PRINTS: In conjunction with unveiling Loren Munk's new paintings and public art project, Rupert Ravens Contemporary Editions has commissioned a series of 20 limited edition prints. The limited editions, each detailed with a collage by the artist, premiered in Munk's Brooklyn and Madrid exhibits as well as online through the publisher. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Longtime Brooklynite Loren Munk has had over twenty solo exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide. His career has extensively made headlines in ARTNEWS, The New York Times and NYArts among many others. A sneak peek of "Map Paintings" in New York and Chicago last March was covered on Artnet in both cities and featured in TimeOutNY. Paintings from this series were also procured for an exhibit at the FSU Museum in Tallahassee this December. |
PRESS BROOKLYN, NY Loren Munk: "Best in Show: I'll Be Your Mirror" review by R.C. Baker, Village Voice, Oct 19 '06 Loren Munk: "Williamsburg, Brooklyn Art Scene: The Guy..." interview by Larry Walczak, Eye On Brooklyn, Oct 05, 06 Loren Munk: "Loren Munk" review by Don Carroll, Wagmag Oct '06 Loren Munk: Contemporary Magazine, Oct '06 Loren Munk: "Fall Picks" Pick of Season by Christopher Chambers, NYARTS Sept/Oct '06 MADRID, SPAIN Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: review, El Mundo , Yo dona, Oct 21 '06 Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: interview w/ curRadio 3. Fluido Rosa, Oct 14 '06 Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: review Art Section, Le Netro (in Spanish) Oct 11 '06 Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: review Art section, Diario ADN, (in Spanish) Oct 11 '06 Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: tv feature Agenda, ABC (in Spanish) Oct 10 '06 Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: : review Culture section, El Mundo Metropoli (in Spanish), Oct 10 '06 Munk, Powhida, Schneider& Dam: review Art Section, La Vanguardia (in Spanish), Sept 26 '06 More about Loren Munk: |
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