7-10 pm Saturday, August 14th with live performances in the garden by Emily Hultman and her band, Zachary King, and more.  Sponsored (and with pizza from) Two Boots and Astor Wines & Liquors.

285 E 3^rd St. Second Floor New York 10009

LES/East Village, between Aves C and D near the F, L and 6 lines

Preview images on Flickr!

Works will be available for silent auction, prices based on whatever information was kept with the piece.  Some pieces are free or $0 first bid, with $10 bid increments.  Come help them reclaim their history and give them a loving home.  Includes work by Chris Twomey, Hilary Maslon, Gulsen Calik, Liz N Val, Lina Pallotta, Nikki Johnson, P. Skiff, and Emilio Cruz. Sales benefit Tribes.

Curated by Janet (Janet@Bruesselbach.com) and Ana (ambezanilla@yahoo.com)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2010   

UNPOP           curated by Janet Bruesselbach

September 4 – 30, 2010

Opening Reception with refreshments Saturday, September 4, 8 pm

A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery

285 E 3^rd St. #2 New York, NY 10009 (F to 2^nd Ave, 5 blocks east, between Ave C & D)

No artist avoids status anxiety from the judgments of polymarkets, and it often seems the only ideology defining art remains anti-Capitalist antagonism, despite pop art’s ubiquitous ironic recombination of fine and commercial art. Myths that art is just who you know are both true and devalue the complex interplay of measures of value. A Gathering of the Tribes, Unpop’s natal location, as of September 2010, is a nearly broke non-profit, non-commercial, arts organization run out of an old blind guy’s apartment. Its mission of diversity is as easily aimed towards unexpected conjunctions of art from the many splintered tribes of art practice, or that fronts at freedom from market constraints. Contemporary pop art rules the market because it is self-consciously and self-righteously a commodity. In Unpop, we show that spaces peripheral to the art market are all the more market-obsessed.Unpop involves artists who either use pop tropes or engage commodification in entirely different ways. The aesthetic of high-saturation solid colors, forms simplified to communicate and ideas spun positive, sarcastically or not, pervade, from the attention-seeking demands of advertising.

Jenny Bhatt has sent paintings from India that fuse cartoon Western popism with the well-established philosophical conversation of Hindu Buddhist mythology, featuring a cast of conceptual deities in consumerist narratives. She makes interactive work and comic strips at her site
Washington Chavez went to every gallery in New York City asking them to look at his paintings, and filmed all of it. The result is a queasy litany of rejection, the dying profession of door-to-door salesman multiplied by the eternal buyer’s market of art, emotional sadomasochism intensified by raw documentary recording.
Rita Alves’s anamorphic installation paintings are more engaged with the national politics of U.S. human rights violations than directly with consumer politics. The use of funhouse optics to undistort image evidence of atrocities questions the tension artists feel between the obligations to be both sensitizing activists and entertainers. It makes the whole commodity issue look selfish.
Lauren Hoffen paints commercial parodies that literalize ironic double-speak through blacklight-sensitive paint.
James Mercer assembles ephemeral cardboard and paint installations (as well as digital and ink drawings) resembling video game levels. They are idiosyncratic, generative rewarders of attention from Millenial observers trained by extremely creative-labor-intensive products.

Inquire Janet@Bruesselbach.com and view online catalog at http://www.tribes.org/web/unpop/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 15 2010

WHAT

A Lost and Found Art Show

August 2010 / with the annual Charlie Parker Festival

Reception with performances by Emily Hultman and her band, and Zachary King

Saturday August 14 7pm-10pm

A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery

285 E 3^rd St. Second Floor New York 10009

LES/East Village, between Aves C and D near the F, L and 6 lines

This August, we celebrate how a gallery has become an orphanage for
lost art. The makers rejected their object offspring, forgot them, or mostly simply hoped this gallery could give them better, or gave in kind. Hailing from diverse backgrounds, epochs and climates, the objects attract questions about context and absurdity, and evidence many years of Tribes history. The abandoned pieces themselves draw away from the common notion of artists’ ownership and intent and rather forces an understanding of how the collective unconscious, intentional or not, can bring new appreciation for such works once placed in a home together. Each piece has its own life story to tell, and every viewer plays a large role in discovering it.

More than a few pieces remain from previous Charlie Parker Festivals, and the lively interplay of downtown styles celebrates the Bird and his generous lifestyle.  The outcome of living for the sake of one’s art, whatever it may be, and pushing the boundaries of what that art can be, becomes most brilliantly weird in the periphery.

Works will be available for silent auction, prices based on whatever information was kept with the piece.  At least one room will be all $0 to start, with $1 bid increments.  Come help them reclaim their history and give them a loving home.  Includes work by Chris Twomey, Hilary Maslon, and Emilio Cruz. Sales benefit Tribes.

Curated by Janet (Janet@Bruesselbach.com) and Ana (ambezanilla@yahoo.com)

Troubadours and Fools: An Evening Soirée
Saturday, July 31st, 7pm-9pm
Free, donations welcome

Richard Wagner coined the term “Gesamtkunstwerk” to describe a synthesis of
the arts, or total art, which is a union of all artistic expression. In this modern
era the body and soul of art has been reduced to a commodity that often
serves a purpose aimed at little more than financial gain. The “Troubadour”
and the “Fool” are personalities often attributed to the true artist who struggles
against contemporary society’s commercial vision of art.

It is our pleasure to extend an invitation to attend a night of music, dance,
projection images, canvas art, storytelling, fine food and drink. Our little Soirée
looks to create a satisfying evening of the senses through community among
artists and enthusiasts, as it is our view that one cannot be had without the other.
Imagine if you will, the sketches of a Jazz composition as it is given breath by
the musicians conceiving of and performing the piece. Each artist plays off
of the feeling and creativity of the others to paint a canvas of deep emotion
and expression while the tie that holds the piece together is the “head” or
the compositional theme. With “Troubadours and Fools” as the head for the
evening, a collection of artists will attempt to create a performance that lives
completely in the moment.

Presented by Charley Crockett & Zachary Kangas
Tribes Gallery
285 East 3rd Street, 2nd Floor
NYC 10009

Samuel Bjorgum
Aporias

July 3rd-30th A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery 285 E 3rd St. Second Floor New York, NY 10009
OPENING SATURDAY JULY THIRD 7:00 PM

1.
Untitled, 12 by 24 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $700.00

2.
Untitled, 11 by 14 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $550.00

3.
Untitled, 11 by 14 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $550.00

4.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

5.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

6.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

7.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, NOT FOR SALE

8.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

9.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2009, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

10.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, NOT FOR SALE

11.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

12.
Untitled, 16 by 20 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $800.00

13.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

Ten Limited Edition 14 by 14 inkjet archival prints available, $100 each

14.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

15.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

16.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

17.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

18.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

19.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

20.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

21.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

22.
Untitled, 12 by 12 inches, Oil and Alkyd on Hardboard, 2010, Samuel Bjorgum, $500.00

David Hammons’ famous installation piece

“Sea and Fog”, $35,000
6 ft by 8 ft painting made with careful masking (we’re working on identifying the artist)

Tribes Gallery
285 East 3rd St, 2nd Fl

Opening Reception Aporias July 3rd, 7pm

On view July 3-30th

Samuel Bjorgum plays the parallax between participant and spectator, which are partial perspectives not necessarily overlapping with artist and audience. The paintings methodically overlap desire-engaging images regarded as problematic for their crystallization of object and subject. They aspire to an approachability and accessibility frustrated but not negated by their multiplicity and evasion. These small paintings are processes that oscillate between what would culturally be called hot and cold, approaching holism backwards through the social mess of division, immanently inconcludably.

CatWeazle Club
July 8 , 8 pm

Doors open for sign up 7:30pm
performances 8pm
12-15 open stage slots filled with comedy, poetry, music, dance and one featured set!!

Performers Free. Listeners $5
Domestic and imported beers at $2-3 apiece
Featured Performance by: ‘Free Advice’

Trance By Edgar Nkosi White
July 18th 5-7 pm
*In the garden with guest drummers*

TRANCE is a performance arts piece created by God. It is an odyssey through the life and work of Langston Hughes as interpreted by Edgar Nkosi White through music and spoken word.

CatWeazle Club
July 22 , 8 pm

Doors open for sign up @ 7:30pm
Performances start @ 8pm
12-15 open stage slots filled with comedy, poetry, music, dance
Performers Free. Listeners $5
Domestic and imported beers at $2-3 apiece

Julio 3-30 2010

Recepcio’n para artista Julio 3ro 7pm-9pm
A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
285 E 3rd St. Segundo Piso. New York 10009
LES/East Village, between Aves C and D near the F, L and 6 lines

Sam Bjorgum compromete a la paralaje entre participante y el espectador, que son perspectivas parciales no necesariamente se superponen con el artista y el público. Pinta a partir de imágenes consideradas como problemáticas para su cristalización del objeto y el sujeto, para lo cual el artista es el espectador. Aspiran a una cercanía y accesibilidad frustrados pero no negada por su multiplicidad y la evasión. Las pequeñas pinturas son procesos que oscilan entre lo que culturalmente se llamaría caliente y fría, se acerca el holismo hacia atrás por el desorden social de la división. Bjorgum vive y trabaja en Minneapolis.

Ver www.samuelbjorgum.com para más.
Contacto de Galeria: Janet@Bruesselbach.com

“Стихия Сэмюэля Бджоргум- это импульсивность образа, достигнутая особым цветовым строем, ярким и звонким, и одновременно бесстрастным и холодным. Сэмюэль достигает свои идеи сталкивая противоположность чувств, мыслей и желаний, вызывая колебание и дрожь, выплёскивая накал, вызывая резонанс цветa и его звучание.

Искусство Сэмюэль Бджоргума переносит зрителя в особую среду, в которой события протекают вне времени и вне пространства, где сам художник играет параллакс между событиями, которые являются частичными перспективами не обязательно накладывающимия с переживанием художника и аудитории. Его картины подкупают своей возможностью понять и объять образ, не исключая его многогранность и иллюзорность. Эти маленькие картины-процессы, колеблющееся между состоянием “горячо и холодно”, пропуская холизм через беспорядок разделения, выявляя его очевидность.
Сэмюэль Бджоргум живёт и работает в Миннеаполисе. ”

Samuel Bjorgum Aporias
July 3-30 2010
Opening Reception July 3rd 7pm-9pm
A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
285 E 3rd St. Second Floor New York 10009
LES/East Village, between Aves C and D near the F, L and 6 lines

Samuel Bjorgum plays the parallax between participant and spectator, which are partial perspectives not necessarily overlapping with artist and audience. The paintings methodically overlap desire-engaging images regarded as problematic for their crystallization of object and subject. They aspire to an approachability and accessibility frustrated but not negated by their multiplicity and evasion. These small paintings are processes that oscillate between what would culturally be called hot and cold, approaching holism backwards through the social mess of division, immanently inconcludably.
He lives and works in Minneapolis.
www.samuelbjorgum.com samuel.bjorgum@gmail.com

For inquiries contact Janet@Bruesselbach.com

WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE
May 21st - June 27th, 2010

Collage Workshop: Sunday June 6th, 2-4 pm
Opening Reception: Sunday June 6th, 4-6 pm

Garden Concert with Michael Shenker
Sunday June 6th, 6:30 pm

Tribes Gallery
285 East 3 rd St
New York, NY 10009

Tribes Gallery is excited to present the exhibition Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage. This is the most recent and ambitious showing of the work of Poets in Collage regulars Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Heman, Yuko Otomo, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Valery Oisteanu and Bruce Weber, who have been exhibiting together in various permutations around town since 2006, with the inspired addition of Star Black, Aaron Howard, Nicole Peyrafitte and Lewis Warsh.

Sunday June 6th from 2 to 4pm there will be a collage workshop led by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Valery Oisteanu. Anyone can join in making collages! Donation based*
Poets in Collage Opening Party following the workshop from 4-6 pm~
6:30 pm Concert in the Garden with Michael Shenker, vocalist and pianist performing R &B, Jazz, and Pop Classics as well as original songs.
Thursday June 10th, 8 pm CATWEAZLE CLUB PRESENTS:  Completely unplugged! 12-15 open stage slots — comedy, poetry, music, dance — sign-up commences at 7:30pm, performance begins at 8pm. Featuring one or two extended sets per evening. Offering local and imported beers at $2-3 apiece. Please join us!
FEATURED PERFORMER
6/10 Willy Gantrim & the Phantoms
“…stopped in our tracks by Willy Gantrim, who was playing solo acoustic in the front of the cafe. He recalled a cross between Dylan, Deer Tick and Tallest Man on Earth - a potent and awesome combo. Rocking a pseudo-pompadour, Gantrim had a mysterious air about him, and his dusty South Western Americana songs … were excellently crafted and executed in an honest and humble manner.” (Stark Online) Please join facebook.com/catweazlenyc

Sunday June 13th 5-7 pm, Kathryn Takara & Rashidah Ismaili Read Islands, Issues, Identities: Poetics from the African Diaspora : “Hawai`i and West African Black scholar/poets reflect on the politics of identity, family, community, alienation, and assimilation.”
Sunday June 20th 2-5 pm, The Vision Festival Presents...
Poetry by: Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Bob Heman, Lewis Warsh.
Poetry & Music : Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B, Barry Wallenstein, Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger, Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan, Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic, Steve Dalachinsky , Alexandre Pierrepont, Tamara Singh, Tsaurah Litsky, Steve Ben Israel
Musicians/Improvs: Ellen Christi, Max Johnson bass, Andrew Barker drums, Charles Waters reeds
Sunday, June 27th 5 to 7 pm What happens next zine collating/reading
Host: Eve Packer Contributors, artists & poets: Joanne Pagano Weber, Marilyn Sontag, Bruce Weber, Keith Roach, Diana Kurz, Ellen ‘windy’ Lytle, Marilyn Sontag, Eve Packer, Bob Quatrone, Miriam Stanley, George Spencer, Ron Kolm, Cindy Hochman, Patricia Carragon, and others to be announced…

Garden Readings & Music
May 23rd-June27 2010
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street, 2nd Fl
NYC 10009

Sunday June 6th from 2 to 4pm there will be a collage workshop led by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Valery Oisteanu. Anyone can join in making collages! Donation based*

*Poets in Collage Opening Party following the workshop from 4-6 pm~

7:00 pm Concert in the Garden with Michael Shenker, vocalist and pianist performing R &B, Jazz, and Pop Classics as well as original songs.

Sunday June 13th 5-7 pm, Kathryn Takara & Rashidah Ismaili Read Islands, Issues, Identities: Poetics from the African Diaspora : “Hawai`i and West African Black scholar/poets reflect on the politics of identity, family, community, alienation, and assimilation.”

Sunday June 20th 2-5 pm, The Vision Festival Presents…
Poetry by: Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Bob Heman, Lewis Warsh.
Poetry & Music : Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B, Barry Wallenstein, Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger, Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan, Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic, Steve Dalachinsky , Alexandre Pierrepont, Tamara Singh, Tsaurah Litsky, Steve Ben Israel
Musicians/Improvs: Ellen Christi, Max Johnson bass, Andrew Barker drums, Charles Waters reeds

Sunday, June 27th 5 to 7 pm What happens next zine collating/reading
Host: Eve Packer Contributors, artists & poets: Joanne Pagano Weber, Marilyn Sontag, Bruce Weber, Keith Roach, Diana Kurz, Ellen ‘windy’ Lytle, Marilyn Sontag, Eve Packer, Bob Quatrone, Miriam Stanley, George Spencer, Ron Kolm, Cindy Hochman, Patricia Carragon, and others to be announced…

FREE COLLAGE WORKSHOP

A Gathering of the Tribes presents:
Poet-run collage workshop
June 6, 2010 from 2-4 pm

Open to everyone!!! FREE
Tribes Gallery
285 East Third Street, Manhattan
212.674.3778
info@tribes.org

Coinciding with a show of poets’ collages curated by Bruce Weber, Tribes Gallery is sponsoring a one-of-a-kind special free workshop!

Join poet and master collagist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright for an afternoon of fun and learning. Wright is part of a long-tradition of poets who do collages. He studied with Alice Notley at St. Mark’s Church. His collages have been included in magazines and art exhibitions.

Materials such as rubber stamps, markers, glue and images will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring extra images. At the end of the workshop you will be able to take your creations home.

Valery Oisteanu, the poet and noted art historian will join Wright. Wright and Oisteanu have curated several collage shows together and both write regularly for The Brooklyn Rail.
Other poet/ collagists in the show include Star Black, Lewis Warsh, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo and Bruce Weber.

So come and enjoy an afternoon of hands-on, ‘make your own & bring it home’ work of art with experienced and acclaimed writers and artists. Stick around after the workshop for the Opening Party for the Poets in Collage exhibition on view now at Tribes Gallery!

*The events were made possible by Salon 94, David Hammons and Capital One Bank *