Glen Sacks-”Used Bikes”-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 11 x 8 ½

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Joan Criswelll-Untitled Etching-Mixed Media-$100 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 17 ½ x 12

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Richard Brachman-”Guiness”-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x  W), 10 ½ x 18 3/8

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Susan Stoltz-”T-Lady”- 4 block wood cut-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 12 ½ x 9 1/2

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Angela Valeria-”The Etruscans”- Glasse monoprint-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 10 x 13 1/4

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Alessandra Nichols- “Trees”- Acrylic-$300 pair - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 11 x 5 3/8

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Olivia Beens-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 6 ¼ x 8 ½ x 5 1/4

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Vanessa Rivera- $150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 11 ¾, x 11 ¾ x 1

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Nancy Rakoczy- “Study One”-Plastic and Cloth-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 1 3/8

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Joy Walker-”Pink Lover”-Acrylic and plastic-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 11 ¾ x 15 7/8 x 3/4

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Richard Armijo-”Blonde Retro”-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 x 3/4

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Shari Diamond-”Holding Not having”-Archival inkjet-$75 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 9 5/8 x 14 1/2

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Eric Ginsberg-$225 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 3/4

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Kazuko Miyamoto-”Three Legs”-Water Color-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 17 ½ x 7

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Susanne Kessler-untitled-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 14 x 10

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Neddie Heller-”Star Child”-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 10 x 11 x 1/

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Wan Ling Li- Untitled-Thread and glue-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D),  13 ¼ x 11 x 7 1/2

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Gulshen Chalik-Book-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 7 7/8 x 5 ¼ x ¾  (plus 21 inch thread)

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Liz Val-”Big Red Painting”-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 7 x 5 x 1/2

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Fran Kornfeld-”Nascence”-$180 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 10 ¾ x 8 7/8 x 1 3/8

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Jeanette Arnone-”Into the Abyss You Go”-$150 – Dimensions in inches (L x W x D), 11 x 9 x 1 3/8

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Jide Ojo-”Goldstone”-NFS - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 11 ½ x 9 ½ x 1 5/8

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Robin Esposito-Self Portrait-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 15 7/8, 11 3/4 x 1 3/8

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Diane Bowen-”Heart of the Monster”-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 4 x 7 x 1/4

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Monica DeVries Gohlke-Mars-etching-$250 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 13 x 9 7/8 x 3/4 Monica De

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Judith Tummino- “View of Rivers”-$75 – Dimensions in inches(L x W x D),  7 ¾ x 9 5/8 x 3/8 

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Frank R. McDonough-”Rose”-$200 – Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 12 x  12 x 1 1/8 

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Vernita N. Cognita- “Payday Blues”-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 13 ¾ x 8 

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Robert A. Petrick-”30 pieces”-acrylic-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D),14 x 9 7/8 x  3/4 

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Rifka Milder-“Pool”-photograph-$60 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 9 x  11 3/8 x 3/4 

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Cari Rosmarin-Solar Print-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 11 1/8 x 13  

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Sumayyah Samada-untitled-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 10 ¼ x 7 

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Yukako Okudara-untitled-(Water Color)-$150 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 6 x 11 

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  David R. Thomas-”Fish Pond” -Acrylic on Board- $150 pair - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 5 x 7 each

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Sally Camp-Etching-$250 – Dimensions in inches(L x W x D),  11 ¼ x 9 3/8 

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Stephan Eins-”One”-$50 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 4 ¾ x 5 5/8 

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Patricia O Rourke-”Hole to Brooklyn“-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 12 ½ x 11 5/8 x 6

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John Milisenda-Photo Studio-$75 - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 8 ½ x 11

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Jackie Lipton- Yellow Acrylic-$175 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 5 x 5 x 7/8 

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Jill London- viscosity Print$100 L.E.S. (How should this be listed) - Dimensions in inches(L x W), 10 7/8 x  7 1/2 

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Ursula Clark-”Downstream”-monoprint-$100 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 5 1/8 x 7 1/8 x ½  

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Kenneth Sean Golden-”George Washington, 2 Frenchmen, Bears and Pigs”-Archival Inkjet-$300 - Dimensions in inches(L x W x D), 12 x 9 3/8 x 3/4 

-By Susan Scutti

Gathering of The Tribes Gallery is proud to present Difficult Dreams, an exhibition of work by Lisa Renko and Sarah Valeri.  Opening April 4th, Difficult Dreams will include paintings, photographs and installations. Both artists derive their iconography from the physical act of creating; both seek the spiritual in collaboration; both find their vision in dreams.

Born to Russian immigrant parents, Renko is a native New Yorker. Since the earliest age, she was exposed to the rich iconography of the Russian Orthodox faith as well as to the eloquent movement of classical ballet through her grandmother’s legacy at Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. Renko works as a painter, installation artist, and actress. A post-structuralist, Renko believes one must engage chaos and confusion and acknowledge them as evolutionary agents; the intensely emotional aspects of these agents are catalysts for spiritual development. Renko uses reflective surfaces and varied light sources, prayers, diaries, poems, photographs, and valuables strewn around with living and organic matter, and discardable, seemingly unrelated items.

Valeri grew up in a military household, eventually spending time in every region of the country. For years art held a very personal and solitary function in her life; she worked as a teacher and painted in her basement, exhibiting only sporadically in Florida and in Omaha, NE. Yet her work remained isolated, mostly large, bald figures and animal totems estranged from any environment. After life-changing realizations, Valeri resigned her teaching position, sold her belongings and moved to New York City, where her work began to face as well as incorporate the public. Valeri often collaborates with musical acts (KMBS and Snazz Mammoth) as well as with poets, musicians and other artists. Prefering an authentic and spontaneous approach, Valeri plans little to nothing as she begins.

Opening: Saturday, April 4th, 7pm
A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
285 East 3rd Street, NY, NY 10009 (Avenues C & D)

Curated by Angela Valeria
“Back To The Wall”is an evolving ongoing bi- monthly  attempt by many and diverse artists to keep Tribes as alive, vital ,and relevant as it has been for the last 18 years by keeping it
solvent.
The back wall of Tribes Gallery will be covered completely, by as many small works as possible and all priced low enough to keep them flying “off the wall.”

A Gathering of the Tribes presents

Elusive Interiors
Paintings by Loie Hollowell
Poems by Iris Cushing

Loie Hollowell will present paintings that address the idea of intimate interiors and what one artist does within. These paintings act as a gateway into fantasy rooms in which Hollowell has unlimited space to make any kind of art she wishes. These spaces are stark opposites from her reality in which a tiny bedroom doubles as her studio.

Iris Cushing, a poet and art critic, will present a series of poems addressing the significance of intimate interiors. The “verbal atmospheres” revealed in these poems will appear alongside Hollowell’s paintings, creating a resonance between language and image. The works of the painter and the poet will present a dual perspective on the very personal spaces in which the artist feels secure enough to venture into the limitless world of the imagination.

WHEN:  March 2— March 28, 2009

                    Gallery Hours Monday – Friday 12-5pm
Opening Reception and Reading
Featuring Reading by Eileen Myles and Arthur Nersesian
             Friday, March 13 — 6-9pm

             Open Forum Discussion—
Concepts of Interior Space
Saturday, March 21— 5pm

WHERE: A Gathering of the Tribes,

               285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor

               (between Avenues C and D)

               New York, NY

CONTACT: A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery

               Phone: 212-674-3778
Fax: 212-674-5776
Email: Info@tribes.org

                        Loie Hollowell (artist)

               Email: loiehollowell@yahoo.com

“YES Love, YES Life”
by Grace Rim
On view January 10^th – February 1^st, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, January 10^th 6-8pm

January 2, 2009 - Gathering of The Tribes Gallery is proud to Show  “ Yes Love, Yes Life” an exhibition of Grace Rim.  Grace Rim is a Korean American Painter and multimedia artist, creates paintings that involves tearing and sewing the surface as a form of time-realization in the process of self-renewal.  In this January exhibition, “ Yes Love, Yes Life” the artist is showing 2 paintings, 3 digital images, and 3drawings with a new year wishes and hopes.
The medium for ‘Yes Love, Yes Life’ painting are a veil, wedding accessories, thread, needle, acrylic, Ink, oil and house paint on canvas.  The medium for ‘Love’ painting are thread and acrylic on canvas.  The 3 digital images are from her meditation experience, which the artist photographed her performing experience of herself making 108 bows for 100days. On the image, there are Buddhist beads on a mat where she was making the 108 bows. Her drawings have simple organic forms, which collapse together and make serene music.

The Artist lives and works in New York. www.jgracerim.com

View into a new world landscape

On Saturday, January 10, 2009, Gathering of The Tribes Gallery
will have an opening reception for Carl “Musa” Hixson’s solo exhibit, “View into a new world landscape “The reception will be from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and the show will run through February 1, 2009
Musa is a Brooklyn-based Installation Artist and Sculptor. His work has been described as “Abstract Commentary.” This description relates to the fact that many of his works are strictly formal while others function as social commentary, and others still, are a mixture of both. These applications relate to his philosophy that “A real life should be a series of exercises in freedom.” The use of spheres in his work represents a spirit (usually in some stage of incubation). Rather he demonstrates his freedom by addressing contemporary social issues or presenting artwork that only satisfies what he perceives as a formal void in space.

In this exhibition Musa invites you to travel through a mental landscape where plastic spheres show growth and wood blossoms into metal balls. Making one ponder on the potential energy of all things, and also challenging our traditional understanding of terrain and the organic.

If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an
interview with Musa, please call Musa at (718) 208-0525 or email
Musa@musaart.com.com

For Immediate Release:
A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery presents Jamie Martinez and Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda

A Gathering of the Tribes will present GONE AWAY an exhibition featuring work by Jamie Martinez and Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda. The inspiration behind the work is the exploration and adventure of the gorgeous state of California (Jamie) and the Peoples Republic of China (Gonzalo Andrew). Jamie Martinez spent a total of four months in California, and after traveling the state, he put together a colorful collection of paintings that show his exceptional view at life and art.  He believes in the power of different mediums, and will also display two video installations and some photographs of New York.  Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda latest series is influenced by a recent trip to the Peoples Republic of China, the beauty and kindness of the people leaving a deep lasting impression.

The show runs from December 13^th – 31^st, with an opening reception Saturday December 13^th, 6-9 pm.

About the Artists:

Jamie Martinez highlights the correlation between geometric triangles and everything we see around us, focusing on all the structure that is part of our everyday lives and objects. Jamie’s Paintings are created mostly with heavy body acrylics; and a combination of painting knives and brushes.  Not one to follow others, Jamie is trying to distinguish himself with his unique style of painting, which clearly separates him from the rest.  He is currently living and working in New York.

Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda produces figurative paintings while distorting them to clearly define their truth. His artistic vision is influenced by graffiti, modern and pop art. Andrew works mainly with acrylics on canvas but also wood, glass and found objects. He was born and raised in New York but currently resides in Miami.

For more information contact Jamie Martinez at JHMNYC@GMAIL.COM or 646-945-4404

Or Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda at thepenarandagroup@gmail.com or 786-431-7926

To see more work by the artist go to:

WWW.JAMIEMARTINEZ.NET

A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery

285 east 3^rd Street, New York, NY 10009 (between Ave C and D)

212-674-3778 hours: Monday – Friday 12pm – 5pm or by appointment

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For the month of October, 2008, A Gathering of the Tribes will present At Home an exhibition featuring work by three Brooklyn-based artists: Amy Lincoln, Christina Medina, and Helena Wurzel. The exhibition explores themes of domestic life through paintings, drawings, video installation, photographs, and collage. The work depicts the artists’ relationships with their living environments as well as with those who share their space, whether they be roommates, partners, or pets. Interacting in close quarters, these modern urban families are created either by attachment or necessity of high New York City rents. In counterpoint to scenes of couples or groups, each artist also explores moments of solitary contemplation within a domestic environment, more often than not, in the bathroom.

The show runs from October 2^nd to the 30^th, with an opening reception Saturday, October 4^th, 6-9pm

About the Artists:

Christina Medina works in a variety of mediums: photography, video, and performance as well as curates Anti-Oxidant BK, a monthly video salon held in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Medina’s work involves an introspective examination of emotional turmoil using a childlike language of imaginative story-telling. Her work has been shown in her hometown of Kansas City, MO and New York.

Helena Wurzel explores themes of sex, fashion, and bodily function through depicting herself and her friends in boldly patterned oil paintings, gouaches, and ornate paper cutouts. A Boston native, Wurzel moved to New York recently after teaching painting and drawing at the University of New Hampshire. She has exhibited in Boston, Providence, and Annapolis.

Amy Lincoln invents imaginary self-based characters and examines the relationship between real world space and the picture plane employing media such as fluid acrylics and paper collage. Lincoln has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, in New York, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland, OR. For the fall of 2008 Lincoln is the Artist-in-Residence at Pocket Utopia in Brooklyn, an artist-run gallery and social space.

For more information contact Amy Lincoln at aplincoln@gmail.com or 347-623-3490

To see more work by the artists go to:

www.helenawurzel.com www.christinamedina.com www.amylincoln.com

A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009 (between Ave C and D)
212-674-3778 Hours: Monday - Friday 12pm - 5pm or by appointment

A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery in East Village, NYC, will be holding an exhibition of works of the late documentary photographer, John Ranard, with an opening reception on September 6. Ranard’s work is collected by the Brooklyn Museum, the Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow, the University of Louisville Fine Print Archives, and the well-known collection of the musician Graham Nash. Ranard passed away in New York City in May of this year of liver cancer.
Ranard is known particularly for his portfolio on boxing, The Brutal Aesthetic, his documentary work on the collapse of the Soviet Empire, and his photographic investigations of the Russian prison system and the epidemic of AIDS in Russia. Portions of The Brutal Aesthetic were published in the book On Boxing in 1987, a collaboration with Joyce Carol Oates and a classic of the genre which remains in print. Ranard’s portfolios on the crumbling of the Soviet Union appeared in Granta magazine and the Ontario Review, and his photographs on AIDS in Russia appeared in a photo essay in The New York Times in 1997 which won First Place for Issue Reporting Picture Story by the National Photographers’ Association for that year. His work on AIDS in Russia was supported by the Soros Open Society Institute, AIDS Foundation East-West, and Médècins Sans Frontières.

According to the family, Ranard left an oeuvre of numerous other portfolios on topics he regularly investigated and interpreted, in his characteristically edgy, and sometimes nuanced, black-and-white style: East Village life in New York City; themes in Louisville, Kentucky, a second home; sports and spectacle in America in the early 1980s; and a much lesser-known portfolio on weddings, I Do.
In an obituary in The Washington Post, Matt Schudel quoted Joyce Carol Oates on Ranard’s photographs, “They’re very poetic. They’re the highest kind of journalism, where it passes into art.” In an article published in The Villager, Q. Sakamaki, a Japanese ex-pat photographer in America, said of Ranard, “He’s a real, great photographer…very talented, especially his composition. If he is lucky, he could have been one of the best photographers in the world–in the opinion of photographers.”
John Penley, an East Village activist, said, “He was very much the classic photojournalist. He would concentrate on one subject—he didn’t just pick one story and then jump to another. He really dedicated his life to that.”
A broad spectrum of Ranard’s work will be showing at the Tribes Gallery, on view from September 4-30, with the opening reception on September 6, 7-10 PM.
On September 6 the Ranard family will be holding a Memorial Service for John, at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery at 5 PM (131 East Tenth Street at Second Avenue), where a slide show will be presented of some 80 of Ranard’s iconic works. Friends and media are invited to attend. Please RSVP merry.esp@verizon.net if you can.