Thursday April 1^st,  8pm

Calling all musicians, poets, artists, singers, songers, ranters, ravers, and lovers.

All performers welcome — open sign-up begins at 7:30pm

Grand opening night will be Thursday, April 1st, 2010 and will feature an extended set by folk musician Danny Schmidt, as well as open floor spots. Amazing refreshments — alcoholic, edible, and otherwise — will be available.

And Again! Every Other Thursday, 8pm

$5 door/ Performers FREE , Sign-up at 7:30pm

Completely Unplugged, Utterly Magical Music, Poetry, Story and Song & All Manner of Performance Artistry, since 1994

The Girl Eye Show

Opening Reception Saturday, April 3 at 7 pm with music and performance.

Photos Relating Females

Lauren Goldberg, Anne Marie Hansen, Beth Hommel, Cassie Olander

Prints by young urban female photographers evidence a spontaneous and intimate female gaze enveloping homo-sociality.  This is about both distance and closeness, intra-gender formal queerness and the receptive camera.

Bowery Books Poets

Sunday April 11^th, 5-7

Poetry Readings from 5-7 pm in Tribes Reading Room

Poets Fay Chiang, Cynthia Kraman and Janet Hamill.

April 17^th, 6-8 pm

Book Party

Shalom Naumen’s Selected Works

‘Unbearables’ Book Release Party and Reading

Saturday, April 24^th, 6-10 pm

$2 Admission

RA Araya presents…

6:00-8:00pm Readings by Carl Watson, Sparrow, Foamola

8:00-10:00pm OPEN Mic with Guitaris t& Songwriter Chris Barrera

A Night of Near Miss(il)es

Jazz Performance

April 30^th, 9pm

Will McEvoy-bass, Nathaniel Morgan-altosax, Cody Brown-drums, Owen Stewart Robinson- guitar.  

Donations to the space gracefully demanded.

Play, drink, discuss and hang. Look forward to it!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/16/10
The Girleye Show
photos relating females
Opening Reception Saturday, April 3 at 7 pm with music and performance.
On view April 3-30, 2010 at Tribes, 285 E. 3rd St. NYC

Lauren Goldberg         Anne Marie Hansen

Beth Hommel         Cassie Olander

Prints by young urban female photographers evidence a spontaneous and intimate female gaze enveloping homo-sociality. This is about both distance and closeness, intra-gender formal queerness and the receptive camera.

For more information contact Janet@Bruesselbach.com

The Girleye Show
Photos relating females.
April 3-30, 2010. Opening Reception Saturday, April 3 at 7 pm with music and performance.
Featuring Beth Hommel, Anne Marie Hansen, Lauren Goldberg, Cassie Olander, and more…

Lauren Goldberg, “Through the Looking Glass”

Small prints by young urban female photographers evidence a spontaneous and intimate female gaze enveloping homosociality.  This is about both distance and closeness, intra-gender formal queerness and the receptive camera.

By Isaac Pelepko (and Janet Bruesselbach)

These pictures show unresolved adolescent issues: sexual self-hatred, inability to unite sexual feelings with any sort of deeper feelings, irresolvable disconnection between intellect and body, disgust in being attached to the male sex, with its sexual crimes committed on women and child. But this immature grotesquerie is treated with formal sophistication. In some of the pictures, a unique stylistic language carries a subconscious influence from great paintings of the past. Other images borrow directly from Rococo and Pre-Raphaelite masters. Compositional ideas are derived from daydreams and enhanced by historical allusion. Pelepko’s voice is unique while entering into a dialogue with art history on the failure of transcendence from carnality.

In short, Isaac hates pooping.

The big room at Tribes has been transformed into a giant same-sex octopus-on-woman tentacle rape scene with quotes from the classics of the Western art canon.

More pictures are on their way.

ALERT: NSFW, obscene, gross-out humor, such warnings.
Opening Saturday, March 6, on view through March 29 at Tribes Gallery.

Courting, 58inx36in, oil on canvas, 2009, 3000.00

Premature Arrival, 36in x46in, oil on canvas, 2009, 2000.00

too much other, 72in by 41 in, oil on canvas, 2009, 4000.00

Feminine Liberation, 46in x72in, oil on masonite, 2009,4000.00

Mans nothing, men opening a door.

Muse orgy, 72inx40in, graphite on paper. 2009, 1000.00

Cartoony Sexy and Violency, pencil on paper, 1000.00

Female Octopus Raping Female Humans 2010, 2000.00

When: March 6, 8pm

Where: Tribes Gallery. 285 E 3rd St btwn Ave C &D.

Tel: 212 674 8262

Isaac Pelepko trained at the New York Academy of Art and Art Students’ League.
He exhibits grotesque paintings and drawings satirizing romance and Romanticism. Like Currin, Pelepko uses careful classical rendering to induce quease and revulsion from visual stimulation. His Romantic series is a perverse narrative of man, woman, and horse.
His new series features Euclidean spaces overpopulated with anatomically exaggerated figures performing absurd dramas.

For More Info: Janet Bruesselbach, janet@bruesselbach.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/17/10

Isaac Pelepko
Cartoony Sexy
& Violency
March 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, March 6, 8 pm

A Gathering of the TRIBES
285 E. 3rd St. 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10009
(212) 674-3778

Isaac Pelepko exhibits grotesque paintings and drawings satirizing romantic love and desire. Like Currin, Pelepko uses careful classical rendering to induce quease and revulsion from visual stimulation. His Romantic series is a perverse narrative of man, woman, and horse. His new series features Euclidean spaces overpopulated with anatomically exaggerated figures performing absurd dramas.

This exhibition is made possible by Salon 94, David Hammons, and Capital One

For more information, contact janet@bruesselbach.com / (310) 617-3366

 Jackie Skrzynki and Hila Sela

Blood and Love: The Ties That Bind 

Exhibition from January 30th to February 27th 

The artists sharing their hearts with us this month at Tribes commit a rare act of optimism. They describe love. Parent, child, husband, wife, son, daughter, friend. These relationships of blood and love create ties that can be stretched to the point of breaking, or redoubled to a strength that lasts generations. Each of these artists holds an ultimately hopeful view of love, but they skirt sentimental notions of archetypal relationships.

To view more images, please go to our flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tribesgalleryphotos/sets/72157623282180958/

Two very young painters have a show together at a gathering of the
tribes. Both took their MFA’s in 2009 from the New York Academy of Art
in TriBeCa, where the emphasis is on training students to paint, draw
& sculpt figuratively, just like the Old Masters (and like the Royal
Academy & French Salon painters of the 19th century, and the academic
branch of surrealism in France in the 1930s). Both these young
painters appear to have learned their lessons, as can be seen in
“Philip J. Hardy/Michael Gibson: Language Paintings” (through January
29). Gibson is still struggling to find himself, although some of his
pictures display sound academic technique, among them “Enter the Red
Shirt” and “They’re Year Five Thousand.” Hardy has not only mastered
academic technique, but is beginning to have ideas about how to employ
it, utilizing a blond palette & fanciful themes that resemble an
ultra-contemporary version of say, Rene Magritte. In only one instance
(among the nine paintings on view) would I say that Hardy’s technique
is inadequate to convey his ideas, but many of his images are
haunting, including “Transcendent Cars,” in which small automobile
float amid clouds, “Flying Pig,” a porker with wings, and “Pigggy,”
which shows another pig, this one under a bridge, with a wheelbarrow &
foliage. Most impressive is “Toad Lover,” a symphony in greys and
browns. It depicts a monstrously large greige toad in a greige
landscape with a smaller greige toad on his shoulders, while strapped
to the head of the smaller toad is a little house with light shining
out of its windows.

Twenty-four years old Janet Bruesselbach has been the curator for Tribes Gallery for the past five months. Originally from Los Angeles, Bruesselbach started out with private lessons and painting portraits at only twelve years of age. She is a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design and also holds a masters in painting from New York Academy. Bruesselbach’s method of recruitment for painters to showcase works at Tribes is, “a sense of humor, diversity, and a little traditional training.” If interested in having art work at Tribes Gallery Please contact Janet Bruesselbach at

Janet Bruesselbach, M.F.A., T.M.I.
limnrix
www.bruesselbach.com
(310) 617-3366

 Jackie Skrzynki and Hila Sela

Blood and Love: The Ties That Bind 

Exhibition from January 30th to February 27th 

The artists sharing their hearts with us this month at Tribes commit a rare act of optimism. They describe love. Parent, child, husband, wife, son, daughter, friend. These relationships of blood and love create ties that can be stretched to the point of breaking, or redoubled to a strength that lasts generations. Each of these artists holds an ultimately hopeful view of love, but they skirt sentimental notions of archetypal relationships.

To view more images, please go to our flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tribesgalleryphotos/sets/72157623282180958/

Current Show: Language Paintings
Philip J. Hardy / Michael Gibson:
Closing Party January 27th 6:30 pm
Two one-room exhibitions of painters who engage with words without including them in the image. Hard uses an illustrative style that frustrates meaning, taking on the colloquial and making referentless parables. Gibson deconstructs visual semiotics, combining collage with observational painting.

Potluck Birthday Bash at Tribes for YUKO OTOMO’s 60th!
Saturday, January 16 3:00 pm
3 pm onward * bring food or drink * wear something red
Bring a creative offering
All Day Music & Poetry Readings

John Fudala Improvised Musical Theater Benefit for Tribes
Suggested $5 donation
Refreshments offered
Friday January 22, 7-10 p.m.
Performance 8-9 p.m.
Doris Lo, John Fudala, Lucas Klauss, Cody Raisig , Luke Meginsky, Ann Doherty-Hardbattle, Brian McCarthy , Anne Stesney, Angie Martin, and Special Guests
Musical accompaniment by Tyler Cash

Tribes Gallery and Will McEvoy presents

Night of Near Music Miss(il)es

Donations to the space gracefully demanded.
Play, Drink, discuss and hang. Look forward to it!!
BRING SOMEONE ALONG, we’re sure they’ll have a good time.

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Dustin Carlson says : “I am very excited to announce the debut of a new ensemble! - a double double bass quartet featuring Will McEvoy n’ Sean ‘lockjaw’ Ali- Bass, Brad Henkel trumpet, and myself on guitar. “We are but rhinoceroses being chased by dumptrucks.”

www.mysace.com/dustinjcarlson

Cal Folger Day – guitar and voice (bluesfolkgarde)

“Cal Folger Day was born and partly raised in our great nation’s capital city. Now, in garretts and barrooms, she strums, whacks, hoots and hollers for congregations of customers most nights of the week. She’ll release her first E.P. and tour the East Coast in March.”

www.myspace.com/calfolgerday

Jackie Skrzynski / Hila Sela
Blood and Love: The Ties That Bind
Exhibition from January 30th-February 27th
Opening reception January 30th 6-9pm.
Staged Reading February 20th 7-9pm
The artists sharing their hearts with us this month at Tribes commit a rare act of optimism. They describe love. Parent, child, husband, wife, son, daughter, friend. These relationships of blood and love create ties that can be stretched to the point of breaking, or redoubled to a strength that lasts generations. Each of these artists holds an ultimately hopeful view of love, but they skirt sentimental notions of archetypal relationships.

*These events were made possible by David Hammons, Salon 94, Capital One Bank* www.tribes.org*