RYAN WOLFE
Apr 25 - May 31
opens April 25 (7-9pm)

DAM, STUHLTRAGER

38 Marcy Ave, Brklyn NY 11211

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" - Edward Lorenz

Ryan Wolfe finally returns to Dam, Stuhltrager after response to his debut at the gallery sent him exhibiting across the world for two years. Wolfe's "Sketch of a Field of Grass" travelled from Brooklyn to Miami, NYC, Chicago, Indianapolis, Newark, Istanbul, Washington DC, Wiesbaden and Chattanooga- leaving a trail of rave reviews and fans stretching across the globe. Before shipping off to Basel... And then Russia... Ryan Wolfe comes back to Brooklyn poised to jump on the whirlwind his new project sets in motion.

An installation inspired by the theories of Edward Lorenz opens one week after his death. This one man's giant impact on contemporary thinking leaves everything after him forever changed.
BRANCHING SYSTEM (butterfly hurricane) Masses of robotic leaves flutter like butterflies, transforming the gallery space into a jungle-like network of complex, serendipitious motion. Individual viewers have an impact on this motion, and their physical interactions with the piece ripple out across the network like wind.
Branching Systems (butterfly hurricane) is an interactive installation exploring Lorenz's famouse "butterfly effect" which signalled the beginnings of modern chaos theory. It tangibly reimagines cause and effect wrapped into a single moment, and demonstrates how small variations of the initial condition of a nonlinear dynamic system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.
SITE SPECIFIC WORK (2008)
Ryan Wolfe will unveil a brand new site specific work created for Dam, Stuhltrager's Gallery Two.
ANNA FRANTS
Apr 25 - May 31
opens April 25 (7-9pm)

DAM, STUHLTRAGER

38 Marcy Ave, Brklyn NY 11211
www.damstuhltrager.com
info@damstuhltrager.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “The space penetrates the space.”- Vladimir Vasilievich Sterligov
Dam, Stuhltrager partners with St. Petersburg Art Project to forge new frontiers and find common ground in New Media. Russian artist, Anna Frants' media installations are total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound. Her work employs state-of-the-art technologies and is distinguished by precision and direct simplicity. Just as her Sterligovite predecessors conceptually redefined space in paint, Frants utilizes video and audio to reconfigure a viewer's reality...

Vladimir Vasilievich Sterligov did not transcribe to a particular doctrine nor labor along the lines of set methods. A visionary painterand theoretician, Sterligov defined learning as an experience beyond merely understanding fundamental principles such as light and space. Mastering conventional notion of given ideals is rudimentary. One practices in order find their own, particular aesthetic and conceptual clarity.
IN THE SHADE OF AN OLIVE TREE (2007)
Leaves rustle in wind that is not there. Chirping fills the air from birds that have flown farther than could possibly be heard. The seemingly straight forward pleasures of a sunny day spent "In the Shade of An Olive Tree" provides playful fodder for Frant's interactive installation. The logic ingrained in how one distinguishes a common setting such as a tree in the sun's rays is skewed. Video and sound are utilized to manipulate light, contrast, touch and “reversity” within the installation, producing an environment where nothing is rationally as it is naturally perceived. As spectators enter the frame of projected light- he/she participates in the creation of an image and is transported, on the associative level, to a suggested world by inference.

"The lacy shadow of the olive tree, rustling of leaves, mosaic floor and power of imagination will bring you to Greece where specks of light on the marble of an ancient sculpture play in the same way as they do on your hand caught in a beam from the projector." - A.F. 2007 (Dedicated to Nina Zakharovna Kunina)

SITE SPECIFIC WORK (2008)
Anna Frants will unveil a brand new site specific work created for Dam, Stuhltrager's front windows.
It began last summer. Crowds packed Dam, Stuhltrager's Sculpture Garden once a month to catch rising stars under the open sky. The music stopped when cold weather hit... But cheers for "MORE! MORE! MORE!" warmed our ears all winter. We heard you and we are staged to deliver. This summer Williamsburg's Outdoor Music Series RETURNS. Twice a month. Twice as many to cheer on with, "ENCORE!"
Dam, Stuhltrager Garden Music Series: SUMMER LINEUP 2008
Dam, Stuhltrager & Leo Kesting/ NYC: MARK ANDREAS
State St & English Ave/ INDY: Public Sculpture by BROSE PARTINGTON & JAMES DARR
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