TRIBES’ Open house!
April 14, 3:00PM- Onward
285 E. 3rd St. 2nd FL
Books for sale! Art for sale! Tribe’s memorabilia for sale!
Refreshments & Snacks available
If you can’t buy anything, stop by and say hello to Steve Cannon “The Blind Guy”
Category Archives: Gallery
Michael Randall at 490 Atlantic
Michael Randall at 490 Atlantic
“Twenty (odd) small paintings”
“I believe that both painting and abstraction — far from being exhausted, irrelevant or dead — still contain limitless fresh possibilities.” -Michael Randall
I first became acquainted with the paintings of Michael Randall when I found a batch of cast-off watercolors in the garbage outside his building. I liked the energy of the abstract forms, the vitalism they seemed to exude, encompassing both a joyous buoyancy and an undefined anxiety. I scooped them up and took them home. (My entire art collection is composed of works the artists themselves have rejected. Many of these end up in storage.) Some of the Randalls still hang on my walls.
OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTO THE OPEN
Bimbo Rivas by Carlos Pinto
Bimbo Rivas by Carlos Pinto
Two Boots Pizzeria
3rd & A NYC
3/8/2013
photo:
Rafael Sánchez
Here is the Chinese Baby You Ordered.
Chris Twomey (1954-2012), “Haplogroup B Red” (Madonna Series), 2005. ultrachrome ink on archival paper 13×19 $500
Part of our benefit show, up now at Tribes, 285 E 3rd St. 2nd Floor. Stop by for a rare find and support us!
Special ONE DAY Poetry Workshop with Dorothy Friedman
SPECIAL ONE DAY
POETRY WORKSHOP
with Dorothy Friedman August
Dorothy August is an award winning poet, teacher and editor. She is author
of 3 books of poems, Family Album, Liberty Years, and NIGHT poems. Ms.
August studied with John Ashbery and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer at
BrooklynCollege where she received her M.F.A. She’s won prestigious
awards, including a 1997 N.Y.F.A. fellowship and has published in The
Partisan Review, Hanging Loose, The California Quarterly, The Centennial
Review, Mudfish, Tribes, Orbis, Mobius, The Long Islander, Big Bridge,
Sinister Wisdom, The New York Arts Journal, Kayak, spinybabble, etc.
Anthologies include Speaking The Word, Ikon, Two Unbearables collections:
Worst Book and Sex anthology, as well as excerpt from a memoir in A Jewish
FIRE ESCAPES, WATERFRONTS & ROOFTOPS AS URBAN LANDSCAPE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“FIRE ESCAPES, WATERFRONTS & ROOFTOPS AS URBAN LANDSCAPE,” A SOLO EXHIBITION BY EUGENE HYON, A NEW YORK-BORN ART PHOTOGRAPHER
New York, December 5, 2012—Emerging artist/photographer Eugene Hyon
will exhibit sepia tone and digital color photographs for one week in Steve Cannon’s art gallery at A Gathering of the Tribes, located at 285 East 3rd Street, 2nd floor, between Avenues C & D. After January 25, 2013, this exhibition will be extended to February 1, 2013. Closing Reception Party will be held Saturday, February 2, 2013 between the hours of 5:00PM-7:00PM.
The theme of the exhibit is a photographic series that calmly observes those features that make buildings part of an urban landscape, which on the surface is man-made in structure, yet is made physically natural and spiritually alive in its use and occupation by people.
I create with a painter’s eye for composition. Each photo is evidence of the patience required to get things just right and my attention to craft and detail is what holds a viewer’s attention. Stillness, elegance and classical proportion are the stylistic characteristics that make my photographic compositions. A viewer never senses overweening intention or manipulated intervention. What is uplifting occurs simply and as a result of patient witness in which that kernel of hope ultimately shines through. Soulfulness is that crucial element that prevents my photography from becoming lost in the noise of the temporary and trivial.
The gallery at A Gathering of the Tribes was chosen for its strong sense of history, artistic neighborhood atmosphere and relevance to the exhibit’s photographic subject matter. The popularly known “Tribes” on the Lower East Side was founded by Steve Cannon, author, well-known mentor of emerging contemporary artists and an iconic figure of the Lower East Side art scene.
For further information about the art photography of Eugene Hyon:
80 La Salle Street, Apt. 7G
New York, NY 10027-4713
1.646.388.2962 (cell)
E-mail address: eugenehyon@hotmail.com
Web site: http://local-artists.org/user/9203
Art Show Rules
Tribes is seeking art show proposals for all of 2013. In the interest of honesty and clarity:
If you want to show
ART at TRIBES GALLERY
here is
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW and EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DO.
This can be turned into a contract if necessary.
- Send samples of your work and a description of the show to janet@bruesselbach.com and gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com at least 2 months in advance of when you want to show. We will give you the go ahead or not.
- We do not have funding to support art shows unless you bring it to us. Write a grant or collect enough to donate to Tribes to cover its operational costs: at least $200/day, $1000/week, $3000/month. You may be able to fulfill some of this by donating your labor in the office or in restoring the space, but this still involves grant writing. Be competent, frequent, and useful at these things. Get to know Steve and make yourself part of the community.
- We do not have a permanent paid staff, so don’t rely on the volunteers. If you cannot either promote, prepare, and install yourself or hire someone to do it for you and follow these terms, you should not show here. YOU MUST COVER ALL EXPENSES. You can cover them with the aforementioned grant or crowdfunding, but these are not included in the operational costs listed above.
- Confirm the dates and terms of the show 6 weeks before its starting date. Openings can be any evening, but neighbors have complained too much about Saturdays.
- Have a press release 1 month before the opening date, and send it to gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com. Come to Tribes and use our press contacts, bulk mail permit, and printer. Make sure you have FINALIZED your press release before it goes out online. It should include the title, participants, date, time, address, contact information, and at least a paragraph of description. An image is also good. The press release MUST go out before 2 weeks prior to the opening date.
- Begin installing 3-7 days before your opening date.
- DON’T DO ANYTHING TO THE SPACE YOU CANNOT AND WILL NOT REVERSE. You are responsible for cleaning everything up.
DO NOT:
- Use glue or tape on the wall
- Use water soluble paint or pens
- Paint over light switches
- Use candles
- Embed mounts in the wall
- Leave fasteners in the wall
- Spill paint on the floor. Lay down tarps or newspaper.
- ALTER IN ANY WAY THE DAVID HAMMONS INSTALLATION WALL
You will owe us at least $1000 in damages for each of these things if you do them, but what’s more important than the punishment is that you DON’T DO THESE THINGS.
8. At the opening, it is customary to pay for the wine and other refreshments by taking donations of $3/cup and sometimes door donations as well. You must find someone to pour the wine and work the door. Ask Tribes volunteers.
9. You must stop playing music in the back yard by 10 pm, in the apt by 12pm, and everyone must leave by 2 am. Come in before an event to make sure the place is in good shape, and clean it up afterward because visitors will be there the next day.
9. Tribes requests a donation of 40% of sales of any work. Officially, Tribes isn’t selling anything, but checks written to us count as donations, so we operate as a go-between, and it makes buying things easier. Understand that you have to be paying enough attention and be present enough to sell work and keep track of your money.
10. Re-emphasizing because it’s important: CLEAN UP. Leave the space in better shape than you found it. Remove fasteners, spackle, sand, remove everything you put on the walls and repaint if you made art on the wall. Don’t leave art here after the closing date. We have enough “donated” as it is.
The main point is, it is up to you to make things look professional. You need to make something to be proud of. Regardless of your genius, it is not a privilege of yours to have other people do the gallery work for you. This means that things can be as you want them, but it also means that you must show respect for yourself and others. I don’t mean to insult you – all of this should be obvious and possible, and we really want to show your art here. But if you don’t promise to take care of these things, you cannot show at Tribes.
Janet Bruesselbach, 11/27/2012
Sensitive Skin #9 Reading Release Party
The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party
For immediate release:
Contact:
Larissa Shmailo
212-712-9865
The Carol Novack
Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party
Tribute Party
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street, Second Floor
New York City
Saturday, December 8, 7:00 pm to midnight
FREE!
MadHat Honors Founder with Gala Event: The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party December 8 at Tribes
MadHat honors its late founder, publisher, eclectic anti-genre writer, and lawyer Carol Novack, with a gala reading and party December 8 at New York City’s landmark multicultural arts center A Gathering of the Tribes. The event features such poetry luminaries as Andrei Codrescu, Cornelius Eady, Bob Holman, CA Conrad, Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich, Steve Dalachinsky, Marc Vincenz, Larissa Shmailo, Sarah Sarai, Ben Mazer, Lee Ann Brown, and many others.
Leon Dewan of Dewanatron, whose Swarmatron was extensively featured in the movie The Social Network, and the Ubudis Duo, featuring cellist Jonathan Golove and Mexican musician Omer Tamez, will provide music for the evening. Posthumous collections by Hugh Fox, Primate Fox, and Carol Novack and Tom Bradley’s Felicia’s Nose will be launched in a party atmosphere with costumes, prizes, and holiday merriment.
The late Carol Novack was a writer known for testing the boundaries of established literary genres who founded the multimedia online journal Madhatters’ Review. Known for its antic, eclectic, and international spirit, the magazine quickly became a mecca for the avant garde in literature today. Today, MadHat is a book publishing press as well as a journal, lead by publisher and editor-in-chief Marc Vincenz.
In the spirit of Carol Novack, who was also a lawyer known for her championship of the arts and underrepresented causes, the Carol Novack tribute party is being held at A Gathering of the Tribes in support of poet and mentor Steve Cannon. Cannon’s Tribes is one of the few remaining institutions committed to poetry in a neighborhood once known for poetry and the arts. The embattled arts organization is currently fighting eviction from its longtime home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
| The Carol Novack gala features some of the most important voices in cutting-edge literature. Andrei Codrescu founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas in 1983 and has taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University where he was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. He’a been a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered since 1983, and received a Peabody Award for writing and starring in the film Road Scholar. |
Cornelius Eady is the author of seven volumes of poetry inspired by blues and jazz. Recently awarded honors include the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and individual Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bob Holman is an American poet most closely identified with the oral tradition, spoken word, and slam poetry. As a promoter of poetry in many media, including the legendary Bowery Poetry Club, Holman’s current project is a PBS special on endangered languages. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University.
“The son of white trash asphyxiation,” CA Conrad’s childhood included “selling cut flowers along the highway for my mother and helping her shoplift.” He is the author of several popular books of poetry including The Book of Frank and is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 RADAR and UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 Banff Fellow.
Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, husband and wife, are Russian émigrés bilingually active in literature in both the United States and the Russian Federation. Considered leaders in the experimental poetry movement, they are publishers of the landmark literary annual Fulcrum.
Ben Mazer‘s most recent collections of poems are Poems (Pen & Anvil) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books). His New Poems is forthcoming from Pen & Anvil in 2013. He is the editor of Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf) and of a forthcoming critical edition of The Complete Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve). He is co-editor of The Battersea Review.
In keeping with MadHat’s international outlook, new publisher and executive editor Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents. An English-German bilingual collection of his poems Additional Breathing Exercises is to be released by Wolfbach, Zurich (2013) and a full-length collection, Mao’s Moles, is forthcoming from NeoPoiesis Press (2013). Marc is Executive Editor of MadHat Press and Mad Hatters’ Review.
Larissa Shmailo is an award-winning poet and a Russian translator known for her original translations of Alexei Kruchenych and other zaum. Her books and CDs include The No-Net World (SongCrew Records), In Paran (BlazeVOX), and A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press). Her second full-length poetry collection #SpecialCharacters is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press.
Also featured are Susan Lewis, Brendan Lorber, Bill Yarrow, Rafael Urweider, Gretchen Primack, Sarah Sarai, Patricia Carragon, Tom Bradley, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Susan Scutti, and Steve Dalachinsky.
EXTRA! Ocean Vuong Joins Carol Novack Tribute Party!
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of the chapbookBURNINGS (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010) and is a recent graduate from Brooklyn College with a B.A. In English. A Kundiman fellow, he was a finalist for the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Other honors include a 2012 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for YoungerPoets, an Academy of American Poets award, the Connecticut Poetry
Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. Poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Verse Daily, RHINO, diode, Guernica, Drunken Boat, South Dakota Review, and The Collagist, amongst others. He keeps a blog at www.oceanvuong.blogspot.com
Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. Poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Verse Daily, RHINO, diode, Guernica, Drunken Boat, South Dakota Review, and The Collagist, amongst others. He keeps a blog at www.oceanvuong.blogspot.com
Please read the Carol Novack Tribute issue of Madhatters’ Review at http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/index.shtml
The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party is a free event. Donations will be requested in support of MadHat and A Gathering of the Tribes. Wine and beer will be sold, with proceeds to go to MadHat and A Gathering of the Tribes.
For more information about the event, which will be recorded for the television show Poetry Thin Air, please contact Larissa Shmailo at 212-712-9865 or larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com
The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street, Second Floor
New York City
Saturday, December 8, 7:00 pm to midnight
FREE
Contact:
Larissa Shmailo
212-712-9865
TRANSFORMATIONS
Stop the eviction of Steve Cannon & A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
Stop the eviction of Steve Cannon & A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
Mr. Cannon purchased the brownstone in the 1970’s, but had to sell it due to financial hardship in 2004. He sold the building to the current owner with the understanding that he would re-invest the money over at least a 10-year period to keep the multi-cultural art space thriving. The owner now wants to sell the property and it would be more convenient if he wasn’t there. THEREFORE, she is threatening with eviction based on what she claims are zoning issues relating to the operation of a non-profit gallery space in a residential area.
Mr. Cannon is now struggling to keep his home and the 22-year old multi-cultural arts organization alive. Please show your support for Mr. Cannon and A Gathering of the Tribes whom are both vital to the local neighborhood and the art community at large.
SAVE TRIBES!!
A Gathering of the Tribes is a 501(c3) non-profit art organization located in the Lower East Side. The mission of this small local art gallery and salon – founded by Steve Cannon in 1991 – is to showcase underexposed artists. Mr. Cannon –a veteran, now 77-years old and blind – has been a fixture of the Manhattan art scene for decades as a poet and mentor.