Waiting to Exhale

Opening April 28, 2012
7-9pm
@2974 N Fratney Street

nAbr gallery presents a exhibition of new work by Allison Heape. Heap’s installation recognizes the humor, pain and ambiguity involved in constructing subject matter.

Neapolitan

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Neapolitan

[new nAbr location]

2974 N Frantey Milwaukee, WI
March 10, 2012

6-8pm

 

nAbr gallery presents a new installation by Sean Cairns, “Neapolitan” in reference to his performance, We Can’t Deny It’s There’ = Nothing; A Performance, with nAbr gallery at the Art Shanty Projects in Minnesota.  

 

“In the work titled, Concrete Comedy – Ice Cream Social – Sublime Humor – Skepticism of Culture (2012) the focus is on Milwaukee’s art scene. Needless to say, the title brings up works by one of Milwaukee’s most recognized and influential artists, David Robbins. Such works by Robbins have become the image associated with the current jive in Milwaukee, but little critique goes much further than whispering rumor. The work presented in the Neapolitan exhibition plays the role of the critic reacting to the internal voices of Milwaukee who exercise one common complaint. The absence of criticism and a true critic to fill the boots. Admittedly this is only one of the lacking necessities required for real growth in a successful art scene, but what I find important and free for everyone to take part in is self-criticism. Not to worry about who’s not doing their job, but staking the claim to do it better. Performing not only the duty of a disciplined analytical viewer, maker, connoisseur, but one assuming responsibility for whatever works, galleries, and even viewers who deserve attention … meaning those exceptionally valued in Milwaukee, then on down the line.”

-Sean Cairns

We Can’t Deny It’s There’ = Nothing; A Performance

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Photo documentation curtsy of Lara Ohland.
Space curtsy of the Reflection Shanty

‘We Can’t Deny It’s There’ = Nothing; A Performance

INFO

spamhead @MDW Fair

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spamhead @MDW Fair

October 21-23rd, 2011 at the Geolofts
3636 S Iron Street, Chicago 60609

Vernissage: Friday October 21, 8-11pm
Saturday Noon to 6pm
Sunday Noon to 6pm

nAbr gallery is delighted to present a new video installation by Phyllis Baldino at the MDW Fair in Chicago.  Her new video, spamhead, takes the idea of spam further into the realm of invasion.  What would it be like to have spam sent directly inside our brains at random?

Baldino primarily works in video but has been known to incorporate performance and sculpture into her practice.  Her often witty narratives frequently root themselves in various scientific phenomenon such as the “theory of everything”, which is evident in her recent series Out of Focus Everything. This silent series is comprised of forty videos and explores the idea that we may be living in a multi-dimensional world.  Baldino uses various manual and digital manipulations to create eleven dimensions in video.  At times she turns to political channels as in her commissioned video installation, Mars Rome NY De La Warr. Or as recently, due to open-heart surgery, Baldino choses to follow a personal narrative by relating the development of a blind spot in her own vision with Monet’s deteriorating vision in Absence is Present: May June July.

Baldino received a BFA in sculpture from the Hartford Art School, and has since received national and international recognition for her work.  She has had solo shows at Three Walls, The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, centre d’art. Marnay Art Centre, Marnay sur Seine, France, among others; and group shows with the MoMa, the MCA, and the Walker Art Center.  As one of her most recent accomplishments this past April, Baldino was exhibited in the EAI and MTV organized special project in Time Square as part of their 40th anniversary programing.

MMI

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MMI

nAbr gallery (Italia) is pleased to announce its first international exhibition, “MMI” by Bradly Fischer, opening Saturday April 23, 2011, 12-4pm. Fischer frames the demeanor of the contemporary generation through digital manipulation and introspective measurement.

nAbr gallery (Italia) è lieta di annunciare la sua prima mostra internazionale, “MMI” da Bradly Fischer, apertura sabato 23 Aprile, 2011, 12-16. Fischer cornici il livello contemporaneo generazione digitale attraverso manipolazioni e introspettivo misurazione.

The View Master’s Lair

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